The ability to disperse large seeds, rather than body mass alone, defines the importance of animals in a hyper‐diverse seed dispersal network

L Ong, KR McConkey, A Campos‐Arceiz - Journal of Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Large‐bodied animals play irreplaceable roles in seed dispersal, partly due to their capacity
to disperse large seeds. Understanding this role at a community level has been limited by …

Binturong ecology and conservation in pristine, fragmented and degraded tropical forests

A Honda, Z Amir, CP Mendes, JH Moore, MS Luskin - Oryx, 2024 - cambridge.org
The persistence of seed-dispersing animals in degraded habitats could be critical for
ensuring the long-term conservation value and restoration of forests. This is particularly …

Limited directed seed dispersal in the canopy as one of the determinants of the low hemi-epiphytic figs' recruitments in Bornean rainforests

M Nakabayashi, Y Inoue, AH Ahmad, M Izawa - PLoS One, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Ficus species are keystone plants in tropical rainforests, and hemi-epiphytic figs play a
notably important role in forest ecosystems. Because hemi-epiphytic figs have strict …

A pain in the neck: weak links are not a reliable release mechanism for radio-collars

K Rayner, M Sullivan, C Sims, S Cowen - Australian Mammalogy, 2021 - CSIRO Publishing
Collars are an attachment method commonly used to mount data collection devices on
wildlife. Removal of collars at the completion of a data collection period is a high priority for …

Dietary partitioning in sympatric Paradoxurinae civets in Borneo suggested by compound-specific nitrogen isotope analysis of amino acids

M Nakabayashi, T Tsutaya, AH Ahmad… - Progress in Earth and …, 2024 - Springer
We applied stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic analyses to understand the faunivory of the
four sympatric wild Paradoxurinae civet species in Borneo, which share similar ecological …

[PDF][PDF] Diet of Arctictis binturong (Viverridae, Carnivora) in Aborlan, Palawan, Philippines

MS Allam, JLI Balon… - Journal of Nature …, 2022 - journalofnaturestudies.org
The diet of the binturong (Arctictis binturong) is known to lean towards frugivory in many
parts of its Southeast Asian range, but its diet in the Philippines has never been studied. To …

Improving the detection rate of binturongs (Arctictis binturong) in Palawan Island, Philippines, through the use of arboreal camera-trapping

A Debruille, P Kayser, G Veron, M Vergniol, M Perrigon - Mammalia, 2020 - degruyter.com
Although remote camera-traps are used worldwide for ecological studies, the methods of
use are often based on ground-level detection. This inherently limits the ability to detect …

List of food plants of four sympatric Paradoxuriane civet species based on eight-year records on Borneo

M Nakabayashi - Tropics, 2020 - jstage.jst.go.jp
In this paper, I summarize the plant foods used by four sympatric Paradoxurinae civet
species, based on data collected between May 2010 and June 2018, and consider their …

Repeated Evaluations of Testes and Semen Characteristics in Two Binturongs (Arctictis binturong)

ZZ Zainuddin, S Sipangkui… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The binturong is a medium size carnivore belonging to the Viverrid family that lives in dense
forests of South-East Asia. In addition to the protection of this vulnerable species in its …

Genetic diversity and structure of the binturong Arctictis binturong (Carnivora: Viverridae) – status of the elusive Palawan binturong and implications for conservation

G Veron, A Debruille, P Kayser… - Zoological Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The binturong or bearcat is a forest mesocarnivore ranging from Nepal to Indonesia and the
Philippines. Several subspecies of binturongs are recognized but a revision is needed. The …