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Human disturbance is the most limiting factor driving habitat selection of a large carnivore throughout Continental Europe
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SYSNO ASEP 0551830 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Human disturbance is the most limiting factor driving habitat selection of a large carnivore throughout Continental Europe Author(s) Ripari, L. (IT)
Premier, J. (DE)
Belotti, E. (CZ)
Bluhm, H. (DE)
Breitenmoser-Würsten, C. (CH)
Bufka, L. (CZ)
Červený, J. (CZ)
Drouet-Hoguet, N. (FR)
Fuxjäger, C. (AT)
Jędrzejewski, W. (PL)
Kont, R. (EE)
Koubek, Petr (UBO-W) RID, SAI, ORCID
Kowalczyk, R. (PL)
Krofel, M. (SI)
Krojerová-Prokešová, Jarmila (UBO-W) RID, ORCID, SAI
Molinari-Jobin, A. (CH)
Okarma, H. (PL)
Oliveira, T. (SI)
Remm, J. (EE)
Schmidt, K. (PL)
Zimmermann, F. (CH)
Kramer-Schadt, S. (DE)
Heurich, M. (DE)Number of authors 23 Article number 109446 Source Title Biological Conservation. - : Elsevier - ISSN 0006-3207
Roč. 266, FEB (2022)Number of pages 12 s. Language eng - English Country NL - Netherlands Keywords Habitat selection ; Human disturbance ; Large carnivore ; Multi-scale ; Carnivore ecology ; Landscape cohabitation Subject RIV EH - Ecology, Behaviour OECD category Biodiversity conservation Method of publishing Limited access Institutional support UBO-W - RVO:68081766 UT WOS 000788103900018 EID SCOPUS 85122532613 DOI 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109446 Annotation Habitat selection is a multi-scale process driven by trade-offs between benefits, such as resource abundance, and disadvantages, such as the avoidance of risk. The latter includes human disturbances, to which large carnivores, with their large spatial requirements, are especially sensitive. We investigated the ecological processes underlying multi-scale habitat selection of a large carnivore, namely Eurasian lynx, across European landscapes characterized by different levels of human modification. Using a unique dataset of 125 lynx from 9 study sites across Europe, we compared used and available locations within landscape and home-range scales using a novel Mixed Effect randomForest approach, while considering environmental predictors as proxies for human disturbances and environmental resources. At the landscape scale, lynx avoided roads and human settlements, while at the home-range scale natural landscape features associated with shelter and prey abundance were more important. The results showed sex was of relatively low variable importance for lynx's general habitat selection behaviour. We found increasingly homogeneous responses across study sites with finer selection scales, suggesting that study site differences determined coarse selection, while utilization of resources at the finer selection scale was broadly universal. Thereby describing lynx's requirement, if not preference, for heterogeneous forests and shelter from human disturbances and implying that regional differences in coarse-scale selection are driven by availability rather than preference. These results provide crucial information for conserving this species in human-dominated landscapes, as well as for the first time, to our knowledge, generalising habitat selection behaviour of a large carnivore species at a continental scale. Workplace Institute of Vertebrate Biology Contact Hana Slabáková, slabakova@ivb.cz, Tel.: 543 422 524 Year of Publishing 2023 Electronic address https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320721004985?via%3Dihub
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