Keywords :
Large seeds,
Seed shadows,
Retention time,
Macaca leonina,
Forest regeneration
บทคัดย่อ :
Primates spend half of their lives at sleeping sites and should select them carefully. Macaques usually use about thirty
sleeping sites and their selection respond primarily to predation avoidance. We studied a northern pigtailed macaques troop
sleeping sites selection pattern in a degraded forest fragment, the Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve in Thailand. We identified
107 sleeping sites with only 15 reused sites selected at random. Using resource selection function, we found that macaques
sleeping site selection is best explained by proximity to feeding areas. Preliminary study of habitat characteristic suggests
that there is no structural difference between selected and available sleeping trees in the troop home range. In degraded
habitat where forest structure does not offer optimal sleeping trees against predators and with scattered fruit tree
distribution, macaques seem to favor strategy based on food resources proximity. These results highlight impact of habitat
degradation may have on sleeping site selection in a flexible species.
เอกสารอ้างอิง :
Gazagne, E., Pitance, J. L., Savini, T., Huynen, M. C., Poncin, P., Brotcorne, F., & Hambuckers, A. (2020e). Seed shadows of northern pigtailed macaques within a degraded forest fragment, Thailand. Forests, 11(11), 1184.
