Availability of alternative prey rather than intraguild interactions determines the local abundance of two understudied and threatened small carnivore species

• Alejandro Hernández-Sánchez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alejandro Hernández-Sánchez, Antonio Santos-Moreno

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Ecología Animal, Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación para el Desarrollo Integral Regional-Unidad Oaxaca, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Oaxaca, México

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• Antonio Santos-Moreno

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alejandro Hernández-Sánchez, Antonio Santos-Moreno

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: asantosm90@hotmail.com

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Ecología Animal, Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación para el Desarrollo Integral Regional-Unidad Oaxaca, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Oaxaca, México

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3950-9325

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