A5052174280- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
Universidade de Brasília
2023
Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas
2023
Many vertebrate species undergo population fluctuations that may be random or regularly cyclic in nature. Vertebrate cycles northern latitudes are driven by both endogenous and exogenous factors. Suggested causes of mysterious disappearances documented for populations the Neotropical, herd-forming, white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari, henceforth "WLP") include large-scale movements, overhunting, extreme floods, disease outbreaks. By analyzing 43 disappearance events across Neotropics 88...
Summary The drivers of periodic population cycling by some animal species in northern systems remain unresolved 1 . Mysterious disappearances populations the Neotropical, herdforming white-lipped peccary ( Tayassu pecari , henceforth “WLP”) have been anecdotally documented and explained as local events resulting from migratory movements or overhunting 2,3,4 disease outbreaks 5,6 not considered context large-scale species-specific dynamics. Here we present evidence that WLP represent troughs...