Marbled cats in Southeast Asia: Are diurnal and semi-arboreal felids at greater risk from human disturbances?

Southeast Asia supports the greatest diversity of felids globally, but this felid diversity is likely to be threatened by the severe forest loss and degradation that is occurring in the region. The response of felids to disturbances appears to differ depending on their ecology. For example, the largely terrestrial and nocturnal leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) thrives near forest edges and in oil palm plantations where it hunts rodents (Muridae) at night, thereby avoiding human activity peaks. Conversely, we hypothesized that the sympatric and similar-sized marbled cat (Pardofelis marmorata) would respond negatively to edges and relatively open oil palm plantations as they are more arboreal than leopard cats, rely on tree connectivity for hunting, and are diurnal so have less potential to temporally avoid humans. Using new and previously published camera-trapping studies from Southeast Asia to test habitat associations at multiple spatial scales using zero-inflated Poission GLMMS ...

东南亚拥有全球最丰富的猫科动物多样性，但该区域正发生的严重森林丧失与退化可能对这一多样性造成威胁。猫科动物对干扰的响应因物种生态特性而异。例如，主要营陆栖、夜行性的豹猫（Prionailurus bengalensis）在林缘及油棕种植园附近生存状况良好，它们夜间捕食啮齿目动物（Muridae），从而避开人类活动高峰。相反，我们假设同域分布且体型相似的云猫（Pardofelis marmorata）会对林缘及相对开阔的油棕种植园产生负面响应，因为它们比豹猫更具树栖性，依赖树木连通性进行捕猎，且为昼行性，因此在时间上避开人类的可能性较低。本研究利用东南亚地区新开展及既往发表的红外相机监测数据，通过零膨胀泊松广义线性混合模型（zero-inflated Poisson generalized linear mixed models）在多空间尺度上检验（上述物种的）栖息地关联...