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Human disturbance is the most limiting factor driving habitat selection of a large carnivore throughout Continental Europe
ID Ripari, Lucia (Author), ID Premier, Joe (Author), ID Belotti, Elisa (Author), ID Bluhm, Hendrik (Author), ID Breitenmoser-Würsten, Christine (Author), ID Bufka, Luděk (Author), ID Červený, Jaroslav (Author), ID Drouet-Hoguet, Nolwenn (Author), ID Fuxjäger, Christian (Author), ID Jędrzejewski, Włodzimierz (Author), ID Krofel, Miha (Author), et al.

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Abstract
Habitat selection is a multi-scale process driven by trade-offs between benefits, such as resource abundance, and disadvantages, such as the avoidance of risk. The latter includes human disturbances, to which large carnivores, with their large spatial requirements, are especially sensitive. We investigated the ecological processes underlying multi-scale habitat selection of a large carnivore, namely Eurasian lynx, across European landscapes characterized by different levels of human modification. Using a unique dataset of 125 lynx from 9 study sites across Europe, we compared used and available locations within landscape and home-range scales using a novel Mixed Effect randomForest approach, while considering environmental predictors as proxies for human disturbances and environmental resources. At the landscape scale, lynx avoided roads and human settlements, while at the home-range scale natural landscape features associated with shelter and prey abundance were more important. The results showed sex was of relatively low variable importance for lynx's general habitat selection behaviour. We found increasingly homogeneous responses across study sites with finer selection scales, suggesting that study site differences determined coarse selection, while utilization of resources at the finer selection scale was broadly universal. Thereby describing lynx's requirement, if not preference, for heterogeneous forests and shelter from human disturbances and implying that regional differences in coarse-scale selection are driven by availability rather than preference. These results provide crucial information for conserving this species in human-dominated landscapes, as well as for the first time, to our knowledge, generalising habitat selection behaviour of a large carnivore species at a continental scale.

Language:English
Keywords:habitat selection, human disturbance, large carnivore, multi-scale, carnivore ecology, landscape cohabitation
Work type:Article
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:BF - Biotechnical Faculty
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Author Accepted Manuscript
Submitted for review:09.08.2021
Article acceptance date:31.12.2021
Publication date:10.01.2022
Year:2022
Number of pages:12 str.
Numbering:Vol. 266, art. 109446
PID:20.500.12556/RUL-134401 This link opens in a new window
UDC:630*15
ISSN on article:0006-3207
DOI:10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109446 This link opens in a new window
COBISS.SI-ID:93255683 This link opens in a new window
Publication date in RUL:13.01.2022
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Title:Biological Conservation
Shortened title:Biol. Conserv.
Publisher:Applied Science Publishers
ISSN:0006-3207
COBISS.SI-ID:26719232 This link opens in a new window

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License:CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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Licensing start date:10.01.2022

Secondary language

Language:Slovenian
Keywords:evrazijski ris, Lynx lynx, izbira habitata, človeške motnje, ekologija zveri, sobivanje

Projects

Funder:ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
Project number:N1-0163
Name:Vpogled v medvrstne in znotrajvrstne interakcije med prostoživečimi mačkami v Evropi in Afriki

Funder:ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
Project number:P4-0059
Name:Gozd, gozdarstvo in obnovljivi gozdni viri

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