Povzetek

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.

Ključne besede

evrazijski ris;Lynx lynx;izbira habitata;človeške motnje;ekologija zveri;sobivanje;habitat selection;human disturbance;large carnivore;multi-scale;carnivore ecology;landscape cohabitation;

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Jezik: Angleški jezik
Leto izida:
Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
Organizacija: UL BF - Biotehniška fakulteta
UDK: 630*15
COBISS: 93255683 Povezava se bo odprla v novem oknu
ISSN: 0006-3207
Št. ogledov: 161
Št. prenosov: 15
Ocena: 0 (0 glasov)
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Sekundarni jezik: Slovenski jezik
Sekundarne ključne besede: evrazijski ris;Lynx lynx;izbira habitata;človeške motnje;ekologija zveri;sobivanje;
Vrsta dela (COBISS): Članek v reviji
Konec prepovedi (OpenAIRE): 2024-01-10
Strani: 12 str.
Letnik: ǂVol. ǂ266
Zvezek: ǂart. ǂ109446
Čas izdaje: 2022
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109446
ID: 14271468