Mammal responses to global changes in human activity vary by trophic group and landscape

Burton, A. Cole (author), Beirne, Christopher (author), Gaynor, Kaitlyn M. (author), Sun, Catherine (author), Granados, Alys (author), Allen, Maximilian L. (author), Alston, Jesse M. (author), Alvarenga, Guilherme C. (author), Álvarez Calderón, Francisco Samuel (author), Amir, Zachary (author), Černe, Rok (author), Fležar, Urša (author), Krofel, Miha (author)

Wildlife must adapt to human presence to survive in the Anthropocene, so it is critical to understand species responses to humans in diferent contexts. We used camera trapping as a lens to view mammal responses to changes in human activity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Across 163 species sampled in 102 projects around the world, changes in the amount and timing of animal activity varied widely. Under higher human activity, mammals were less active in undeveloped areas but unexpectedly more active in developed areas while exhibiting greater nocturnality. Carnivores were most sensitive, showing the strongest decreases in activity and greatest increases in nocturnality. Wildlife managers must consider how habituation and uneven sensitivity across species may cause fundamental diferences in human–wildlife interactions along gradients of human infuence.

• Language: English
• Keywords: mammals, global changes, human activity, landscape changes
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: BF - Biotechnical Faculty
• Publication status: In print
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 1-15
• Numbering: Vol. , iss.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-155317
• UDC: 599:591.5:911.52/53
• ISSN on article: 2397-334X
• DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02363-2
• COBISS.SI-ID: 190323971
• Publication date in RUL: 26.03.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Nature ecology & evolution
• Shortened title: Nat. ecol. evol.
• Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Ltd, part of Springer Nature
• ISSN: 2397-334X
• COBISS.SI-ID: 526458649

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: sesalci, globalne spremembe, vpliv človeka, sprememba krajine

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: N1-0163-2020
• Name: Vpogled v medvrstne in znotrajvrstne interakcije med prostoživečimi mačkami v Evropi in Afriki

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: J1-50013-2023
• Name: ExtremePredator: Odkrivanje ekološke vloge vrhovnih plenilcev v ekstremnih okoljih