Prerequisites for coexistence: human pressure and refuge habitat availability shape continental-scale habitat use patterns of a large carnivore
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 ad...
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ftzbmed:oai:frl.publisso.de:frl:6482755 2024-09-15T18:41:46+00:00 Prerequisites for coexistence: human pressure and refuge habitat availability shape continental-scale habitat use patterns of a large carnivore Oeser, Julian Heurich, Marco Kramer-Schadt, Stephanie Andrén, Henrik Bagrade, Guna Belotti, Elisa Bufka, Luděk Breitenmoser-Würsten, Christine Černe, Rok Duľa, Martin Fuxjäger, Christian Gomerčić, Tomislav Jędrzejewski, Włodzimierz Kont, Raido Koubek, Petr Kowalczyk, Rafał Krofel, Miha Krojerová-Prokešová, Jarmila Kubala, Jakub Kusak, Josip Kutal, Miroslav Linnell, John D. C. Mattisson, Jenny Molinari-Jobin, Anja Männil, Peep Odden, John Okarma, Henryk Oliveira, Teresa Pagon, Nives Persson, Jens Remm, Jaanus Schmidt, Krzysztof Signer, Sven Tám, Branislav Vogt, Kristina Zimmermann, Fridolin Kuemmerle, Tobias 2023 https://repository.publisso.de/resource/frl:6482755 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01645-7 eng eng https://repository.publisso.de/resource/frl:6482755 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01645-7 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://lobid.org/resources/99370676569706441#!, 38(7):1713-1728 Zeitschriftenartikel 2023 ftzbmed https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01645-7 2024-06-25T14:20:37Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Lynx Lynx lynx lynx PUBLISSO Fachrepositorium Lebenswissenschaften (ZB MED) Landscape Ecology 38 7 1713 1728 |
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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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Oeser, Julian Heurich, Marco Kramer-Schadt, Stephanie Andrén, Henrik Bagrade, Guna Belotti, Elisa Bufka, Luděk Breitenmoser-Würsten, Christine Černe, Rok Duľa, Martin Fuxjäger, Christian Gomerčić, Tomislav Jędrzejewski, Włodzimierz Kont, Raido Koubek, Petr Kowalczyk, Rafał Krofel, Miha Krojerová-Prokešová, Jarmila Kubala, Jakub Kusak, Josip Kutal, Miroslav Linnell, John D. C. Mattisson, Jenny Molinari-Jobin, Anja Männil, Peep Odden, John Okarma, Henryk Oliveira, Teresa Pagon, Nives Persson, Jens Remm, Jaanus Schmidt, Krzysztof Signer, Sven Tám, Branislav Vogt, Kristina Zimmermann, Fridolin Kuemmerle, Tobias |
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Oeser, Julian Heurich, Marco Kramer-Schadt, Stephanie Andrén, Henrik Bagrade, Guna Belotti, Elisa Bufka, Luděk Breitenmoser-Würsten, Christine Černe, Rok Duľa, Martin Fuxjäger, Christian Gomerčić, Tomislav Jędrzejewski, Włodzimierz Kont, Raido Koubek, Petr Kowalczyk, Rafał Krofel, Miha Krojerová-Prokešová, Jarmila Kubala, Jakub Kusak, Josip Kutal, Miroslav Linnell, John D. C. Mattisson, Jenny Molinari-Jobin, Anja Männil, Peep Odden, John Okarma, Henryk Oliveira, Teresa Pagon, Nives Persson, Jens Remm, Jaanus Schmidt, Krzysztof Signer, Sven Tám, Branislav Vogt, Kristina Zimmermann, Fridolin Kuemmerle, Tobias Prerequisites for coexistence: human pressure and refuge habitat availability shape continental-scale habitat use patterns of a large carnivore |
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Oeser, Julian Heurich, Marco Kramer-Schadt, Stephanie Andrén, Henrik Bagrade, Guna Belotti, Elisa Bufka, Luděk Breitenmoser-Würsten, Christine Černe, Rok Duľa, Martin Fuxjäger, Christian Gomerčić, Tomislav Jędrzejewski, Włodzimierz Kont, Raido Koubek, Petr Kowalczyk, Rafał Krofel, Miha Krojerová-Prokešová, Jarmila Kubala, Jakub Kusak, Josip Kutal, Miroslav Linnell, John D. C. Mattisson, Jenny Molinari-Jobin, Anja Männil, Peep Odden, John Okarma, Henryk Oliveira, Teresa Pagon, Nives Persson, Jens Remm, Jaanus Schmidt, Krzysztof Signer, Sven Tám, Branislav Vogt, Kristina Zimmermann, Fridolin Kuemmerle, Tobias |
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Prerequisites for coexistence: human pressure and refuge habitat availability shape continental-scale habitat use patterns of a large carnivore |
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Prerequisites for coexistence: human pressure and refuge habitat availability shape continental-scale habitat use patterns of a large carnivore |
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Prerequisites for coexistence: human pressure and refuge habitat availability shape continental-scale habitat use patterns of a large carnivore |
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Prerequisites for coexistence: human pressure and refuge habitat availability shape continental-scale habitat use patterns of a large carnivore |
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Prerequisites for coexistence: human pressure and refuge habitat availability shape continental-scale habitat use patterns of a large carnivore |
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prerequisites for coexistence: human pressure and refuge habitat availability shape continental-scale habitat use patterns of a large carnivore |
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