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Detecting the vanishing populations of the highly endangered Darwin's fox, Pseudalopex fulvipes

  1. Author:
    Vila, C.
    Leonard, J. A.
    Iriarte, A.
    O'Brien, S. J.
    Johnson, W. E.
    Wayne, R. K.

  2. Author Address

    Johnson, WE, NCI, Lab Genom Divers, FCRDC, Frederick, MD 21702 USA NCI, Lab Genom Divers, FCRDC, Frederick, MD 21702 USA. Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Organism Biol Ecol & Evolut, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA. Serv Agr & Ganadero, Santiago, Chile.
    1. Year: 2004
  2. Journal: Animal Conservation
    1. 7
    2. Part 2
    3. Pages: 147-153
  4. Type of Article: Article
  1. Abstract:

    Darwin's fox (Pseudalopex fulvipes) is known to survive only on Chiloe Island off the coast of southern Chile and in Nahuelbuta National Park, 600 kin to the north in mainland Chile. The Valdivian coastal forest, in which the Darwin's fox lives, historically spanned from Nahuelbuta National Park southward past Chiloe Island on the mainland. Furthermore, the forest on Chiloe Island was connected to the mainland forest by a land bridge for much of the Pleistocene. Thus, the distribution of Valdivian forest suggests that the historic range of Darwin's fox may have been much larger. We searched the remnant pockets of coastal forest on mainland Chile using live traps, non-invasive techniques and interviews to look for new populations of the critically endangered Darwin's fox. Although no Darwin's fox was captured, evidence of a new population near Punta Chanchan was found

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