Data from: Large carnivores avoid humans while prioritizing prey acquisition in anthropogenic areas ...
Large carnivores are recovering in many landscapes where the human footprint is simultaneously growing. When carnivores encounter humans, the way they behave often changes, which may subsequently influence how they affect their prey. However, little research investigates the behavioral mechanisms un...
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| Language: | English |
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Dryad
2023
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.44j0zpcj7 https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.44j0zpcj7 |
| Summary: | Large carnivores are recovering in many landscapes where the human footprint is simultaneously growing. When carnivores encounter humans, the way they behave often changes, which may subsequently influence how they affect their prey. However, little research investigates the behavioral mechanisms underpinning carnivore response to humans. As a result, it is not clear how predator-prey interactions and their associated ecosystem processes will play out in the human-dominated areas into which carnivore populations are increasingly expanding. We hypothesized that humans would reduce predation risk for prey by disturbing carnivores or threatening their survival. Alternatively, or additionally, we hypothesized that humans would increase predation risk by providing forage resources that congregate herbivorous prey in predictable places and times. Using gray wolves (Canis lupus) in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA as a study species, we investigated 170 kill sites across a spectrum of human influences ranging from ... : Data to support analysis of the relationship between human influences and the likelihood of a wolf kill occurring in a given location. Kill site (i.e., used) locations were identified in the field using the cluster searching method. Matched non-kill (i.e., available) locations were drawn from a 10km radius centered around the wolf GPS collar location immediately preceding the kill (i.e., the last location prior to the formation of the cluster). Continuous covariates were standardized prior to inclusion in models; here we provide the raw values prior to standardization. Column names refer to the following: siteID (identifier for each kill site [i.e., used] location and its matched non-kill [i.e., available] locations) used (binary indicator of whether the location represents a kill site [1] or non-kill site [0]) datetimeLocal (date and time associated with kill site formation, in Mountain Standard Time) x_nad83z12 and y_nad83z12 (X and Y UTM coordinates of location, respectively. In NAD 1983 Zone 12N [EPSG ... |
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