Wolf habitat selection when sympatric or allopatric with brown bears in Scandinavia
Abstract Habitat selection of animals depends on factors such as food availability, landscape features, and intra- and interspecific interactions. Individuals can show several behavioral responses to reduce competition for habitat, yet the mechanisms that drive them are poorly understood. This is pa...
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crspringernat:10.1038/s41598-020-66626-1 2023-05-15T13:13:22+02:00 Wolf habitat selection when sympatric or allopatric with brown bears in Scandinavia Ordiz, Andrés Uzal, Antonio Milleret, Cyril Sanz-Pérez, Ana Zimmermann, Barbara Wikenros, Camilla Wabakken, Petter Kindberg, Jonas Swenson, Jon E. Sand, Håkan 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66626-1 http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-66626-1.pdf http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-66626-1 en eng Springer Science and Business Media LLC https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Scientific Reports volume 10, issue 1 ISSN 2045-2322 Multidisciplinary journal-article 2020 crspringernat https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66626-1 2022-01-04T13:54:36Z Abstract Habitat selection of animals depends on factors such as food availability, landscape features, and intra- and interspecific interactions. Individuals can show several behavioral responses to reduce competition for habitat, yet the mechanisms that drive them are poorly understood. This is particularly true for large carnivores, whose fine-scale monitoring is logistically complex and expensive. In Scandinavia, the home-range establishment and kill rates of gray wolves ( Canis lupus ) are affected by the coexistence with brown bears ( Ursus arctos ). Here, we applied resource selection functions and a multivariate approach to compare wolf habitat selection within home ranges of wolves that were either sympatric or allopatric with bears. Wolves selected for lower altitudes in winter, particularly in the area where bears and wolves are sympatric, where altitude is generally higher than where they are allopatric. Wolves may follow the winter migration of their staple prey, moose ( Alces alces ), to lower altitudes. Otherwise, we did not find any effect of bear presence on wolf habitat selection, in contrast with our previous studies. Our new results indicate that the manifestation of a specific driver of habitat selection, namely interspecific competition, can vary at different spatial-temporal scales. This is important to understand the structure of ecological communities and the varying mechanisms underlying interspecific interactions. Article in Journal/Newspaper Alces alces Canis lupus Ursus arctos Springer Nature (via Crossref) Scientific Reports 10 1 |
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Abstract Habitat selection of animals depends on factors such as food availability, landscape features, and intra- and interspecific interactions. Individuals can show several behavioral responses to reduce competition for habitat, yet the mechanisms that drive them are poorly understood. This is particularly true for large carnivores, whose fine-scale monitoring is logistically complex and expensive. In Scandinavia, the home-range establishment and kill rates of gray wolves ( Canis lupus ) are affected by the coexistence with brown bears ( Ursus arctos ). Here, we applied resource selection functions and a multivariate approach to compare wolf habitat selection within home ranges of wolves that were either sympatric or allopatric with bears. Wolves selected for lower altitudes in winter, particularly in the area where bears and wolves are sympatric, where altitude is generally higher than where they are allopatric. Wolves may follow the winter migration of their staple prey, moose ( Alces alces ), to lower altitudes. Otherwise, we did not find any effect of bear presence on wolf habitat selection, in contrast with our previous studies. Our new results indicate that the manifestation of a specific driver of habitat selection, namely interspecific competition, can vary at different spatial-temporal scales. This is important to understand the structure of ecological communities and the varying mechanisms underlying interspecific interactions. |
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Ordiz, Andrés Uzal, Antonio Milleret, Cyril Sanz-Pérez, Ana Zimmermann, Barbara Wikenros, Camilla Wabakken, Petter Kindberg, Jonas Swenson, Jon E. Sand, Håkan |
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Ordiz, Andrés Uzal, Antonio Milleret, Cyril Sanz-Pérez, Ana Zimmermann, Barbara Wikenros, Camilla Wabakken, Petter Kindberg, Jonas Swenson, Jon E. Sand, Håkan |
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Wolf habitat selection when sympatric or allopatric with brown bears in Scandinavia |
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Wolf habitat selection when sympatric or allopatric with brown bears in Scandinavia |
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Wolf habitat selection when sympatric or allopatric with brown bears in Scandinavia |
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Wolf habitat selection when sympatric or allopatric with brown bears in Scandinavia |
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Wolf habitat selection when sympatric or allopatric with brown bears in Scandinavia |
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wolf habitat selection when sympatric or allopatric with brown bears in scandinavia |
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