0 a small wild cat that has yellow fur with black spots and lives in South America and Central America
The ocelot may constitute a good model to understand what factors affect the abundance of neotropical cats.
If this is the case, we predict a negative correlation between the abundance of the smaller cats with that of the ocelot.
Several authors have noted that ocelots occupy a wide diversity of habitat types, ranging from scrublands to tropical rain forests.
Thus, we expect to find a positive relationship between primary productivity and ocelot density across its distributional range.
The ocelot may thus play a key ecological role as a top-down regulating force in the neotropical forests.
Thus, both logging and poaching may be contributing to the patterns of ocelot abundance observed, but their relative contribution still needs to be assessed.
We found that ocelot densities increase with rainfall and decrease with the latitude of the study site.
At a continental scale, ocelot densities decrease with latitude and increase with rainfall.
