Supplementary material from "Spatial ecology of conflicts: unravelling patterns of wildlife damage at multiple scales" ...

• Main Authors: Bautista, Carlos, Revilla, Eloy, Berezowska-Cnota, Teresa, Fernández, Néstor, Naves, Javier, Selva, Nuria
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Royal Society 2021
• Subjects: Ecology; FOS Biological sciences; 60801 Animal Behaviour; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5565699.v1; https://rs.figshare.com/collections/Supplementary_material_from_Spatial_ecology_of_conflicts_unravelling_patterns_of_wildlife_damage_at_multiple_scales_/5565699/1

Human encroachment into natural habitats is typically followed by conflicts derived from wildlife damages to agriculture and livestock. Spatial risk modelling is a useful tool to gain the understanding of wildlife damage and mitigate conflicts. Although resource selection is a hierarchical process operating at multiple scales, risk models usually fail to address more than one scale, which can result in the misidentification of the underlying processes. Here, we addressed the multi-scale nature of wildlife damage occurrence by considering ecological and management correlates interacting from household to landscape scales. We studied brown bear ( Ursus arctos ) damage to apiaries in the North-eastern Carpathians as our model system. Using generalized additive models, we found that brown bear tendency to avoid humans and the habitat preferences of bears and beekeepers determine the risk of bear damage at multiple scales. Damage risk at fine scales increased when the broad landscape context also favoured ...