Seasonal resource selection of an arboreal habitat specialist in a human-dominated landscape: A case study using red panda.

ABSTRACT: Human-dominated landscapes provide heterogeneous wildlife habitat. Conservation of habitat specialists, like red pandas Ailurus fulgens, inhabiting such landscapes is challenging. Therefore, information on resource use across spatial and temporal scales could enable informed-decision making with better conservation outcomes. We aimed to examine the effect of geo-physical, vegetation, and disturbance variables on fine-scale habitat selection of red pandas in one such landscape. We equipped 10 red pandas with GPS collars in eastern Nepal in 2019 and monitored them for 1 year. Our analysis was based on a generalized-linear-mixed model. We found the combined effect of geo-physical, vegetation, and disturbance variables resulted in differences in resource selection of red pandas and that

SUBMITTER: Bista D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10039176 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature