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Comparación de la dieta y atributos corporales de poblaciones de Rheohyla miotympanum (Anura: Hylidae) en dos hábitats contrastantes en México
Diet and body traits comparison between populations of Rheohyla miotympanum (Anura: Hylidae) in two contrasting habitats in Mexico
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https://doi.org/10.15446/caldasia.v48.120422Palabras clave:
anfibios, bosque de niebla, ecología trófica, modificación del habitat, pastizal para ganado (es)amphibians, cattle pasture, cloud forest, habitat modification, trophic ecology (en)
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Amphibians are a biological group highly sensitive to environmental changes and one of their ecosystem functions includes regulating populations of many invertebrates. However, there are amphibian species that can survive and reproduce in significantly transformed environments. In this type of species, evaluating how habitat transformation modifies their diet and what implications this has on their body traits contributes to understanding how some species overcome one of the greatest threats to biodiversity at the global level. In this study, we compared the diet, size, weight, and body condition of populations of Rheohyla miotympanum that live in cloud forests and frogs that live in cattle pastures in Veracruz, Mexico. We collected 58 frogs and analyzed the stomach contents of 25 individuals. In total, we identified 46 prey items from twelve taxonomic categories at Order level. The diet of frogs from the two environments studied tended to differ (59 % dissimilarity) in the type of prey consumed, although the most numerous prey were from the same taxonomic Orders in frogs from both environments. Contrary to our expectations, size, weight, and body condition did not differ significantly between forest frogs and cattle pasture frogs. Faced with the transformation of forest into cattle pasture, the frog species Rheohyla miotympanum seems to be able to partially modify its diet, without this resulting in a decrease in the size, weight and body condition of individuals in the transformed environment.
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