lorena rivas factors affecting the distribution of the darwins rhea in the auca mahuida reserve in...
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Lorena Rivas
Factors affecting the distribution of the Darwin’s rhea in the Auca Mahuida Reserve in Argentine Patagonia
STUDY AREA
Darwin´s RheaRhea pennata pennata
1.10 m
Adapted to run
Flightless
Diet:
Omnivorous
SocialStructure: Gregarious
Reproduction:Territorial malesHarems of 4-5 females
10-50 eggs per nestEggs incubated by the male
Almost simultaneous hatching
Habitat:Darwin's
Rhea lives in areas of open shrub in the grasslands of Patagonia
Status: Near threatened (IUCN)• Hunting• More
predation due to changes in trophic communities
• Habitat degradation due to livestock overgrazing
• Egg collection
Landholdings
Livestock
Oil industry
Oil trails
(Sheep Units/km2)
Mean ±SE ±1.96*SE Absence Presence
Absence/Presence Darwin´s rhea
-2
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16L
ive
sto
ck d
en
sity
(S
he
ep
Un
its/k
m2
)
p= 0.88
Mean ±SE ±1.96*SE Absence Presence
Absence/Presence Darwin´s rhea
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
1.2
1.4
1.6
1.8O
il tr
ail
de
nsi
ty (
km/k
m2
) p= 0.14
What we are going to record…
Rhea density in Payunia and Auca Mahuida reserve and intermediate lands
Oil trail densityLivestock density Habitat qualityRelative
abundance of predators
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