African forest elephant movements depend on time scale and individual behavior
| Autor: | Michael P. Fay, Peter Morkel, Thomas M. Houslay, Joseph Okouyi, Connie J. Clark, Christopher Beirne, Lee J. T. White, John R. Poulsen |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Houslay, Thomas [0000-0001-5592-9034], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0106 biological sciences
African forest elephant Male Behavioural ecology Science Movement Elephants Endangered species Animal migration Forests 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Critically endangered Behavioral syndrome 631/158/2039 Animals Gabon Multidisciplinary biology Ecology Behavior Animal Movement (music) Conservation biology 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Endangered Species article Animal behaviour biology.organism_classification Tropical ecology 631/158/2450 631/158/856 Geography 631/601/18 Scale (social sciences) Medicine 631/158/672 Female 631/158 |
| Zdroj: | Scientific Reports Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| DOI: | 10.17863/cam.71432 |
| Popis: | Funder: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000202 The critically endangered African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) plays a vital role in maintaining the structure and composition of Afrotropical forests, but basic information is lacking regarding the drivers of elephant movement and behavior at landscape scales. We use GPS location data from 96 individuals throughout Gabon to determine how five movement behaviors vary at different scales, how they are influenced by anthropogenic and environmental covariates, and to assess evidence for behavioral syndromes—elephants which share suites of similar movement traits. Elephants show some evidence of behavioral syndromes along an ‘idler’ to ‘explorer’ axis—individuals that move more have larger home ranges and engage in more ‘exploratory’ movements. However, within these groups, forest elephants express remarkable inter-individual variation in movement behaviours. This variation highlights that no two elephants are the same and creates challenges for practitioners aiming to design conservation initiatives. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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