Habitat use of and threats to African large carnivores in a mixed-use landscape.

ABSTRACT: Large carnivores increasingly inhabit human-affected landscapes, which exhibit heterogeneity in biotic resources, anthropogenic pressures, and management strategies. Understanding large carnivore habitat use in these systems is critical for their conservation, as is the evaluation of competing management approaches and the impacts of significant land-use changes. We used occupancy modeling to investigate habitat use of an intact eastern African large carnivore guild across the 45,000 km² Ruaha-Rungwa landscape in south-central Tanzania. We determined the relative impact on five large carnivore species of biotic, anthropogenic, and management factors at the scales of home range selection and short-term use within home ranges. We also specifically tested the effect of abandonment

SUBMITTER: Strampelli P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10087927 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature