Hog badger (Arctonyx collaris) latrine use in relation to food abundance: evidence of the scarce factor paradox

doi:10.1890/ES14-00155.1

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	Hog badger (Arctonyx collaris) latrine use in relation to food abundance: evidence of the scarce factor paradox
	Zhou, Youbing ; Chen, Wenwen 1; Buesching, Christina D.; Newman, Chris ; Kaneko, Yayoi 4; Xiang, Mingxi 3; Nie, Caiai 3; Macdonald, David W.; Xie, Zongqiang
刊名	ECOSPHERE
	2015
卷号	6 期号:1
关键词	Arctonyx collaris China diet foraging latrine mustelid resource distribution and defense scarce factor paradox scent marking subtropical forest
ISSN号	2150-8925
DOI	10.1890/ES14-00155.1
文献子类	Article
英文摘要	Many carnivores use latrines, and investigations of latrine use have typically been concerned with territorial defense, often at the expense of fully evaluating other, not mutually exclusive, functions. In particular, the relationship between food abundance and latrine use patterns has been explored inadequately, where latrine location may be used to aid spatial memory, to stake a claim on access to temporally variable food resources, or to signal the local depletion of resources. Little is known about the hog badger (Arctonyx collaris), however the consensus is that they are solitary, but nonetheless deposit their feces in latrines, but without any group-territory defense function. This provides an ideal study system to investigate how temporal and spatial variation in latrine use strategy is associated with food resource availability throughout the year. We use generalized linear mixed models (GLMM) and an information-theoretic approach to test the hypothesis that seasonal latrine use patterns signal the resources most valued (i.e., the foraging book keeping hypothesis). We found that latrine use showed significant seasonal and habitat-related variations, where the number of feces per latrine reached seasonal maxima in early summer but was lowest in autumn, and was significantly higher in logged forest and selectively logged forest but lowest in farmland. The intensity of latrine use exhibited a significant negative relationship with environmental food abundance, and was related to dietary output (fecal contents). That is, hog badgers invested most in 'marking' those more limited resources, concurring with the scarce factor paradox, which asserts that the value of any commodity is a function of its rarity.
学科主题	Ecology
出版地	HOBOKEN
WOS关键词	SCENT-MARKING BEHAVIOR ; LOCAL FEEDING SPECIALIZATION ; MELES-MELES ; EUROPEAN BADGER ; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS ; SUBTROPICAL FOREST ; HABITAT SELECTION ; MELOGALE-MOSCHATA ; RESOURCE DEFENSE ; SEED DISPERSAL
WOS研究方向	Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
语种	英语
出版者	WILEY
WOS记录号	WOS:000350440400019
资助机构	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [22405003, 26257404] ; Special Fund for Public Service - Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China [201309039]
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.ibcas.ac.cn/handle/2S10CLM1/25992]
专题	植被与环境变化国家重点实验室
作者单位	1.Zhou, Youbing; Buesching, Christina D.; Newman, Chris; Macdonald, David W.] Univ Oxford, Dept Zool, Recanati Kaplan Ctr, Wildlife Conservat Res Unit, Abingdon OX13 5QL, Oxon, England 2.Management Bur Houhe Natl Nat Reserve, Wufeng 443400, Hubei Province, Peoples R China 3.Tokyo Univ Agr & Technol, Inst Agr, Div Ecosci, Carnivore Ecol & Conservat Res Grp, Fuchu, Tokyo 1838509, Japan 4.Nanjing Univ, Dept Biol, Nanjing 210093, Jiangsu, Peoples R China 5.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Bot, State Key Lab Vegetat & Environm Change, Beijing 100093, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhou, Youbing,Chen, Wenwen,Buesching, Christina D.,et al. Hog badger (Arctonyx collaris) latrine use in relation to food abundance: evidence of the scarce factor paradox[J]. ECOSPHERE,2015,6(1).
APA	Zhou, Youbing.,Chen, Wenwen.,Buesching, Christina D..,Newman, Chris.,Kaneko, Yayoi.,...&Xie, Zongqiang.(2015).Hog badger (Arctonyx collaris) latrine use in relation to food abundance: evidence of the scarce factor paradox.ECOSPHERE,6(1).
MLA	Zhou, Youbing,et al."Hog badger (Arctonyx collaris) latrine use in relation to food abundance: evidence of the scarce factor paradox".ECOSPHERE 6.1(2015).