Prerequisites for coexistence: human pressure and refuge habitat availability shape continental-scale habitat use patterns of a large carnivore

Oeser, Julian (avtor), Heurich, Marco (avtor), Kramer-Schadt, Stephanie (avtor), Andrén, Henrik (avtor), Bagrade, Guna (avtor), Belotti, Elisa (avtor), Bufka, Luděk (avtor), Breitenmoser-Würsten, Christine (avtor), Černe, Rok (avtor), Duĺa, Martin (avtor), Krofel, Miha (avtor), Oliveira, Teresa (avtor), Pagon, Nives (avtor)

Context Adjustments in habitat use by large carnivores can be a key factor facilitating their coexistence with people in shared landscapes. Landscape composition might be a key factor determining how large carnivores can adapt to occurring alongside humans, yet broad-scale analyses investigating adjustments of habitat use across large gradients of human pressure and landscape composition are lacking. Objectives Here, we investigate adjustments in habitat use by Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in response to varying availability of refuge habitats (i.e., forests and rugged terrain) and human landscape modifcation. Methods Using a large tracking dataset including 434 individuals from seven populations, we assess functional responses in lynx habitat use across two spatial scales, testing for variation by sex, daytime, and season. Results We found that lynx use refuge habitats more intensively with increasing landscape modifcation across spatial scales, selecting forests most strongly in otherwise open landscapes and rugged terrain in mountainous regions. Moreover, higher forest availability enabled lynx to place their home ranges in more human-modifed landscapes. Human pressure and refuge habitat availability also shaped temporal patterns of lynx habitat use, with lynx increasing refuge habitat use and reducing their use of human-modifed areas during periods of high exposure (daytime) or high vulnerability (postnatal period) to human pressure.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: animal tracking, adjustment, Eurasian lynx, functional response, habitat availability, Lynx lynx
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: BF - Biotehniška fakulteta
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2023
• Št. strani: str. 1713-1728
• Številčenje: Vol. 38, iss. 7
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-145364
• UDK: 630*
• ISSN pri članku: 1572-9761
• DOI: 10.1007/s10980-023-01645-7
• COBISS.SI-ID: 149682691
• Datum objave v RUL: 19.04.2023

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Landscape ecology
• Založnik: Springer Netherlands
• ISSN: 1572-9761
• COBISS.SI-ID: 25221677

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: To je standardna licenca Creative Commons, ki daje uporabnikom največ možnosti za nadaljnjo uporabo dela, pri čemer morajo navesti avtorja.

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: telemetrija, evrazijski ris, Lynx lynx, funkcijski odgovor, razpoložljivost habitata, primernost habitata