Abundância relativa e fatores ambientais predisponentes à ocorrência de animais domésticos no parque estadual do Mirador, Maranhão

Abstract

The Mirador State Park is a Conservation Unit of the Cerrado biome considered the second largest in the country in which there are about 1,000 residents and added to them their domestic animal breeding. The objective of this study was to evaluate the incidence of domestic animals in Mirador State Park and to verify which parameters influence its occurrence. For this purpose, the photographic traps were installed at distances of 500-800 m, considering the species, time, date and number of individuals to calculate the abundance of these species. In addition, data were obtained from the environmental parameters and the detection history for the years 2014-2015 and 2018 was created in order to perform the occupancy analyzes. According to photographic traps, pigs were the most abundant domestic animals (8.42 ind / 100 day traps) during the period 2014-2015 and asinines (4.01 ind / 100 day traps) during the year of 2018. The distance to water was the variable that most influenced the occupation of domestic animals, followed by the variable distance to houses.