Burnham Dawn, Hinks Amy E, Macdonald David W
Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney, UK.
Folia Primatol (Basel). 2012;83(3-6):148-70. doi: 10.1159/000342400. Epub 2013 Jan 28.
Sympatry between primates and felids is potentially relevant to both their behavioural ecology and their conservation. This paper briefly introduces felids and primates, for the purposes of assessing their interrelationships and the patterns in their spatial congruence using IUCN spatial data. First, we review evidence and opportunity for predator-prey interactions between the felids and primates. Second, we analyse the overlap between species of the two taxa to reveal the potential of particular felid species or guilds (unique combinations of 2 or more felids) to act as umbrellas for the conservation of co-occurring primates. Felid guilds vary in terms of their geographical ranges and numbers of members. Some felid species overlap the ranges of many primate species, and the most speciose felid guilds, while geographically limited in distribution, have the potential to act as protective umbrellas to large numbers of primate species. This prompts the hypothesis that threatened primates and felids are facing similar threats and might thus benefit from similar interventions, which is evaluated in a sister paper by Macdonald et al. in this special issue.
灵长类动物和猫科动物的同域分布可能与其行为生态学及保护情况都相关。本文简要介绍猫科动物和灵长类动物，以便利用世界自然保护联盟（IUCN）的空间数据评估它们之间的相互关系以及空间重叠模式。首先，我们回顾猫科动物和灵长类动物之间捕食者与猎物相互作用的证据和机会。其次，我们分析这两个分类群物种之间的重叠情况，以揭示特定猫科动物物种或类群（两种或更多种猫科动物的独特组合）作为伞护种来保护同域分布的灵长类动物的潜力。猫科动物类群在地理分布范围和成员数量方面各不相同。一些猫科动物物种与许多灵长类动物物种的分布范围重叠，而种类最多的猫科动物类群虽然分布在地理上受到限制，但有潜力成为大量灵长类动物物种的保护伞。这引发了一个假设，即受威胁的灵长类动物和猫科动物面临相似的威胁，因此可能从相似的干预措施中受益，麦克唐纳等人在本期特刊的另一篇论文中对这一假设进行了评估。
