Wolf habitat selection when sympatric or allopatric with brown bears in Scandinavia
Habitat selection of animals depends on factors such as food availability, landscape features, and intraand 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...
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ftninstnf:oai:brage.nina.no:11250/2659445 2023-05-15T13:13:24+02:00 Wolf habitat selection when sympatric or allopatric with brown bears in Scandinavia Ordiz Fernandez, Andres Avelino Uzal, Antonio Milleret, Cyril Pierre Sanz-Perez, Ana Zimmermann, Barbara Wikenros, Camilla Wabakken, Petter Kindberg, Jonas Swenson, Jon Sand, Håkan Scandinavia, Skandinavia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark 2020 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2659445 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66626-1 eng eng Andre: Carl Tryggers Foundation Andre: Miljødiktoratet Andre: Swedish Environmental Protection Agency Norges forskningsråd: xxxxxxx Andre: Swedish Research Council Formas Andre: Austrian Science Fund Egen institusjon: Norwegian institute for nature research Egen institusjon: Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences Andre: Olle and Signhild Engkvists Foundations Andre: WWF (Sweden) Egen institusjon: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Andre: Office of Environmental Affairs in Hedmark County Andre: Swedish Association for Hunting and Wildlife Management Andre: Swedish Carnivore Association Andre: Marie‐ Claire Cronstedts Foundation urn:issn:2045-2322 https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2659445 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66626-1 cristin:1816274 Navngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no © The Author(s) 2020 CC-BY 10 Scientific Reports VDP::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480 VDP::Zoology and botany: 480 Peer reviewed Journal article 2020 ftninstnf https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66626-1 2021-12-23T07:16:44Z Habitat selection of animals depends on factors such as food availability, landscape features, and intraand 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. publishedVersion Article in Journal/Newspaper Alces alces Canis lupus Ursus arctos Norwegian Institute for Nature Research: Brage NINA Norway Scientific Reports 10 1 |
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VDP::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480 VDP::Zoology and botany: 480 Ordiz Fernandez, Andres Avelino Uzal, Antonio Milleret, Cyril Pierre Sanz-Perez, Ana Zimmermann, Barbara Wikenros, Camilla Wabakken, Petter Kindberg, Jonas Swenson, Jon Sand, Håkan Wolf habitat selection when sympatric or allopatric with brown bears in Scandinavia |
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Habitat selection of animals depends on factors such as food availability, landscape features, and intraand 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. publishedVersion |
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Ordiz Fernandez, Andres Avelino Uzal, Antonio Milleret, Cyril Pierre Sanz-Perez, Ana Zimmermann, Barbara Wikenros, Camilla Wabakken, Petter Kindberg, Jonas Swenson, Jon Sand, Håkan |
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Ordiz Fernandez, Andres Avelino Uzal, Antonio Milleret, Cyril Pierre Sanz-Perez, Ana Zimmermann, Barbara Wikenros, Camilla Wabakken, Petter Kindberg, Jonas Swenson, Jon 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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Scandinavia, Skandinavia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark |
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Alces alces Canis lupus Ursus arctos |
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Alces alces Canis lupus Ursus arctos |
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Andre: Carl Tryggers Foundation Andre: Miljødiktoratet Andre: Swedish Environmental Protection Agency Norges forskningsråd: xxxxxxx Andre: Swedish Research Council Formas Andre: Austrian Science Fund Egen institusjon: Norwegian institute for nature research Egen institusjon: Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences Andre: Olle and Signhild Engkvists Foundations Andre: WWF (Sweden) Egen institusjon: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Andre: Office of Environmental Affairs in Hedmark County Andre: Swedish Association for Hunting and Wildlife Management Andre: Swedish Carnivore Association Andre: Marie‐ Claire Cronstedts Foundation urn:issn:2045-2322 https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2659445 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66626-1 cristin:1816274 |
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