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Deforestation and cattle ranching drive rapid range expansion of capybara in the Gran Chaco ecosystem

2011-01-01

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Anthropogenic habitat alteration has the capacity to alter the distribution of species. Capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) are a widely distributed rodent throughout most of South America, but are restricted to areas of standing water. As the Gran Chaco ecosystem of Paraguay is converted from dry tropical forest to pastureland, we hypothesize that this alteration creates potential for invasion by capybara into n...

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Literature Corpus work: c575dcd8-ea91-5324-9d63-157b5974d716
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02193.x

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