Land use in semi-free ranging Tonkean macaques Macaca tonkeana depends on environmental conditions： A geographical information system approach

作     者：Cedric SUEUR Paul SALZE Christiane WEBER Odile PETIT 

作者机构：Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton University 08544 Princeton USA Ethologie des Primates Departement d'Ecologie Physiologie et Ethologie UMR 7178 CNRS-UdS 23 rue Becquerel 67087 Strasbourg France Laboratoire Image et Ville ERL 7230 CNRS-UdS 3 rue de l'Argonne 67000 Strasbourg France 

出 版 物：《Current Zoology》 (动物学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2011年第57卷第1期

页      面：8-17页

核心收录：

学科分类：081603[工学-地图制图学与地理信息工程] 081802[工学-地球探测与信息技术] 07[理学] 0905[农学-畜牧学] 08[工学] 070503[理学-地图学与地理信息系统] 09[农学] 0818[工学-地质资源与地质工程] 0705[理学-地理学] 0816[工学-测绘科学与技术] 

基　　金：European Doctoral College of Strasbourg Universities and the French Research Ministry 

主　　题：GPS GIS Temperature Topography Activity budget Spatial autocorrelation Primates 

摘      要：Wild animals use their habitat according to ecological pressures such as predation, resource availability or tempera- ture, yet little is known about how individuals use their environment in semi free-ranging conditions. We assessed whether a semi-free ranging group of Tonkean macaques Macaca tonkeana used its wooded parkland in a heterogeneous way. GIS and GPS were used to determine whether individuals adjusted their behaviors according to variation in environmental constraints over time of day and the course of a year. We demonstrated that social and resting activities occurred in high altitude areas and areas with a high density of bushes, whereas the group foraged in areas where the density of bushes and grass was low. In general, the animals used areas exposed to the sun that were not on a slope. Semi-free ranging Tonkean macaques seemed to behave like their wild counterparts in terms of activity budget, land use per activity and thermoregulation