One House is a Home for Many: Temporal Partitioning of Vertebrates on an American Beaver Lodge

IF 0.6 4区环境科学与生态学 Q4 Agricultural and Biological Sciences

American Midland Naturalist Pub Date : 2021-04-28 DOI:10.1674/0003-0031-185.2.229

Simon P. Tye, Keith Geluso, M. Harner, A. Siepielski, Michael L. Forsberg, Emma M. Brinley Buckley, Jeffrey S. Dale

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Abstract

Abstract. American beavers (Castor canadensis) are emblematic of diverse and dynamic freshwater ecosystems across North America. Numerous studies have described positive associations between beaver-modified habitats and biodiversity across a wide range of taxa. Yet few studies have documented biodiversity associated with the epicenter of beaver-modified habitats – the beaver lodge. We used an internet-connected, solar-powered, time-lapse camera system to examine daily and seasonal temporal partitioning amongst vertebrate taxa that visited an American beaver lodge in south-central Nebraska over 9 mo. We observed at least 28 species on the lodge, and many organisms were present during discrete daily and seasonal time periods. These observations provide a more holistic view of a widely recognized, yet understudied, component of beaver-modified habitats. Future use of similar visual-recording systems may reveal that other animal structures, such as burrows, nests, and hives, are prominent ecosystem components in the wild.

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一所房子是多人的家：美国海狸小屋脊椎动物的时间划分

摘要美洲海狸(Castor canadensis)是北美多样化和动态淡水生态系统的象征。许多研究已经描述了海狸改造的栖息地与广泛分类群的生物多样性之间的积极联系。然而，很少有研究记录了与海狸改造栖息地中心——海狸小屋——有关的生物多样性。我们使用了一个连接互联网的太阳能延时相机系统，在9个多月的时间里，我们观察了内布拉斯加州中南部一个美国海狸小屋的脊椎动物分类群之间的日常和季节性时间划分。我们在小屋中观察到至少28种物种，许多生物在离散的日常和季节性时间段出现。这些观察提供了一个更全面的观点，广泛认可，但研究不足，海狸改变栖息地的组成部分。未来使用类似的视觉记录系统可能会揭示其他动物结构，如洞穴、巢穴和蜂巢，是野生生态系统的重要组成部分。

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American Midland Naturalist 环境科学-生态学

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1.20

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18-36 weeks

期刊介绍： The American Midland Naturalist has been published for 90 years by the University of Notre Dame. The connotations of Midland and Naturalist have broadened and its geographic coverage now includes North America with occasional articles from other continents. The old image of naturalist has changed and the journal publishes what Charles Elton aptly termed "scientific natural history" including field and experimental biology. Its significance and breadth of coverage are evident in that the American Midland Naturalist is among the most frequently cited journals in publications on ecology, mammalogy, herpetology, ornithology, ichthyology, parasitology, aquatic and invertebrate biology and other biological disciplines.