Keywords
Temporal Niche
Guatín
Anthropic perturbance
How to Cite
Accepted 2024-09-21
Published 2024-11-26
Abstract
By quantifying the daily activity of a species, approximations can be obtained about its temporal niche distribution, which encompasses the variation in the use of resources, activity, and presence of an organism over time. The model species of the study was the guatín (Dasyprocta punctata Gray, 1842), a rodent that has terrestrial, social habits and a flexible diet, whose daily activity patterns were evaluated in sites with and without artificial food sources in the north of the city of Armenia, Quindío, Colombia, between May 22 and 14, 2024. With a sampling effort of 92 cameras/night, statistically significant differences were found in the daily activity of D. punctata between the sites evaluated, despite estimating a high temporal overlap coefficient (84%). It is proposed to expand the studies to test ecological hypotheses in these urban environments.
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