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Flexible habitat use and range extension by the striped hog-nosed skunk (Conepatus semistriatus) in Brazil

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We present evidence of plasticity in habitat use and range extension of the striped hog-nosed skunk (Conepatus semistriatus) in Brazil. We first compiled literature records of C. semistriatus across its known distribution (N = 390), added new records from primary data (N = 10), and compared the main landscape composition (forest, savannah, grassland, agriculture) among these occurrence sites (N = 400). We unveil that landscape composition among occurrence sites varied widely within and among biomes in Brazil (Caatinga, Cerrado and Atlantic Forest), indicating C. semistriatus presence from dense forested habitats to grasslands and anthropogenic areas (especially agricultural landscapes). Almost 30% of the occurrence records of C. semistriatus are outside of the species known distribution, including records in ecotones between Cerrado-Amazonia biomes, extending its occurrence area in 449,118 km2. We conclude that habitat modification is a driver for the occurrence of C. semistriatus in dense forested habitats, facilitating its distribution expansion to previously unexpected areas.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Camila Cassano, Victoria Paz, the owners of the shade cacao plantations and the teams of Pau Brasil National Park and RPPN Estação Veracel. We also thank Adriana Bocchiglieri, Antonio Carlos da Silva Zanzini, Douglas Dias and Karla P. G. Leal for providing occurrence locations. We are grateful to Mariana Nagy-Reis and the Neotropical Carnivores team for sharing occurrence locations for this manuscript.

Funding

This work was supported by Veracel Celulose SA; The Rufford Foundation; National Geographic Society (EC-335R-18); Idea Wild; Zoo Antwerpen; Instituto de Conservação de Animais Silvestres (ICAS); Fundo Brasileiro para a Biodiversidade (FUNBIO); Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)—Finance Code 001; Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação—Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz (UESC) [project number 00220.1100.1840]; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) [Grant numbers 06373/2018-1, 216938/2014-7].

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  1. Centro Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação de Mamíferos Carnívoros (CENAP), Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), Estrada Municipal Hisaichi Takebayashi, 8600, Bairro da Usina, Atibaia, São Paulo, 12952-011, Brazil

    Marcelo Magioli, Lilian Bonjorne & Ronaldo Gonçalves Morato

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Magioli, M., Rios, E., García-Olaechea, A. et al. Flexible habitat use and range extension by the striped hog-nosed skunk (Conepatus semistriatus) in Brazil. Mamm Biol 100, 553–557 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42991-020-00056-4

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