Differential use of food and habitat by sympatric carnivores in the eastern Italian Alps

摘要: In an Alpine area, scat analysis and marking activity were used to assess the feeding habits, habitat preference degree of overlap trophic niche use in sympatric carnivores: red fox (n = 133 faecal samples), badger (n = 177), pine stone marten (Martes sp., n = 382). Fruits main resource for all species. The diet martens differed from those by means a higher consumption garbage non‐Rosaceae fruits. preyed on more lagomorphs roe deer relied almost exclusively two fruit species, rose‐hips whitebeam berries. Badgers ate few invertebrates, with cultivated fruits seeds forming bulk their diet. On whole, was kept low exploitation different species berries mammals and, secondly, seasonal differences same items three carnivores. Badger overlapped wider extent than other pre...