title: Influence of digestive morphology on resource partitioning in Amazonian ungulates.
abstract: Resource partitioning of diet and habitat use was studied in the entire Amazonian ungulate community of Northeastern Peru, which comprises the red brocket deer (Mazama americana), grey brocket deer (M. gouazoubira), collared peccary (Tayassu tajacu), white-lipped peccary (T. pecari), and lowland tapir (Tapirus terrestris). Each ungulate species partitioned at least one type of resource from every other species. Digestive morphology had a greater influence on resource partitioning of diet than body size. Neither digestive morphology nor body size were related to segregation of habitats. However, species with similar diets partitioned habitats, whereas species with different diets often used the same type of forest. Increases in habitat breadth of ungulates were positively correlated with increases in dietary breadth.
authors.affiliation: Large Animal Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, 34A Storeys Way, CB3 ODT, Cambridge, UK.
authors.forename: Richard E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Bodmer
keywords: Amazonian ungulates; Body size; Diets; Digestive morphology; Habitat use; Resource partitioning