A forest-specialist carnivore in the middle of the desert?Comments on Anabalon et al. 2019

被引：2

作者：

Moreira-Arce, Dario ^{[1
]}

Silva-Rodriguez, Eduardo A. ^{[2
]}

Napolitano, Constanza ^{[3
,4
]}

D'Elia, Guillermo ^{[5
]}

Cabello, Javier ^{[6
]}

Millan, Javier ^{[7
,8
,9
]}

Hidalgo-Hermoso, Ezequiel ^{[10
]}

Farias, Ariel A. ^{[11
,12
,13
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Concepcion, Lab Estudios Antropoceno, Fac Ciencias Forestales, Concepcion, Chile

[2] Univ Austral Chile, Fac Ciencias Forestales & Recursos Nat, Inst Conservac Biodiversidad & Terr, Valdivia, Chile

[3] Univ Los Lagos, Dept Ciencias Biol & Biodiversidad, Osorno, Chile

[4] IEB, Santiago, Chile

[5] Univ Austral Chile, Fac Ciencias, Inst Ciencias Ambientales & Evolut, Valdivia, Chile

[6] Univ San Sebastian, Fac Med Vet, Puerto Montt, Chile

[7] Univ Andres Bello, Fac Ciencias Vida, Santiago, Chile

[8] Univ Zaragoza, CITA, IA2, Zaragoza, Spain

[9] Fdn ARAID, Zaragoza, Spain

[10] Parque Zool Buin Zoo, Dept Conservac, Buin, Chile

[11] Univ Republ, Dept Ecol & Gest Ambiental, Ctr Univ Reg Este CURE Maldonado, Maldonado, Uruguay

[12] Pontificia Univ Catolica Chile, Ctr Appl Ecol & Sustainabil CAPES, Santiago, Chile

[13] Univ Santo Tomas, CIICC, Santiago, Chile

来源：

ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION | 2020年 / 10卷 / 08期

关键词：

genus Lycalopex; geographic distribution; lack of evidence; research design; ENDANGERED DARWINS FOX; GENE TREES; FULVIPES; POPULATION; CANIDAE; ECOLOGY;

D O I：

10.1002/ece3.6132

中图分类号：

Q14 [生态学（生物生态学）];

学科分类号：

071012 ; 0713 ;

摘要：

We present comments on an article recently published in Ecology and Evolution ("High-resolution melting of the cytochrome B gene in fecal DNA: A powerful approach for fox species identification of the Lycalopex genus in Chile") by Anabalon et al. that reported the presence of Darwin's fox (Lycalopex fulvipes), a temperate forest specialist, in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of northern Chile. We argue that this putative record lacks ecological support in light of ongoing research on this endangered species, and contains numerous methodological flaws and omissions related to the molecular identification of the species. Based on these issues, we suggest the scientific community and conservation decision-makers disregard the alleged presence of the Darwin's fox in the Atacama Desert.

引用

页码：3825 / 3830

页数：6

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