Prerequisites for coexistence: human pressure and refuge habitat availability shape continental‐ scale habitat use patterns of a large carnivore
| Autor: | Julian Oeser, Marco Heurich, Stephanie Kramer-Schadt, Henrik Andrén, Guna Bagrade, Elisa Belotti, Luděk Bufka, Christine Breitenmoser-Würsten, Rok Černe, Martin Duľa, Christian Fuxjäger, Tomislav Gomerčić, Włodzimierz Jędrzejewski, Raido Kont, Petr Koubek, Rafał Kowalczyk, Miha Krofel, Jarmila Krojerová-Prokešová, Jakub Kubala, Josip Kusak, Miroslav Kutal, John D. C. Linnell, Jenny Mattisson, Anja Molinari-Jobin, Peep Männil, John Odden, Henryk Okarma, Teresa Oliveira, Nives Pagon, Jens Persson, Jaanus Remm, Krzysztof Schmidt, Sven Signer, Branislav Tám, Kristina Vogt, Fridolin Zimmermann, Tobias Kuemmerle |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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Ecology
adjustment Geography Planning and Development VDP::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480 habitat availability Eurasian lynx telemetrija Lynx lynx primernost habitata Animal tracking udc:630 Functional response funkcijski odgovor functional response Adjustment VDP::Zoology and botany: 480 razpoložljivost habitata Habitat availability animal tracking Nature and Landscape Conservation evrazijski ris |
| Zdroj: | Landscape Ecology Landscape ecology, vol. v tisku, no. v tisku, 2023. |
| ISSN: | 1572-9761 |
| Popis: | 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 modification. 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 modification 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-modified 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-modified areas during periods of high exposure (daytime) or high vulnerability (postnatal period) to human pressure. Conclusions Our findings suggest a remarkable adaptive capacity of lynx towards human pressure and underline the importance of refuge habitats across scales for enabling coexistence between large carnivores and people. More broadly, we highlight that the composition of landscapes determines how large carnivores can adapt to human pressure and thus play an important role shaping large carnivore habitat use and distributions. |
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