How territoriality and sociality influence the habitat selection and movements of a large carnivore.

ABSTRACT: While territoriality is one of the key mechanisms influencing carnivore space use, most studies quantify resource selection and movement in the absence of conspecific influence or territorial structure. Our analysis incorporated social information in a resource selection framework to investigate mechanisms of territoriality and intra-specific competition on the habitat selection of a large, social carnivore. We fit integrated step selection functions to 3-h GPS data from 12 collared African wild dog packs in the Okavango Delta and estimated selection coefficients using a conditional Poisson likelihood with random effects. Packs selected for their neighbors' 30-day boundary (defined as their 95% kernel density estimate) and for their own 90-day core (defined as their 50% kernel densi

SUBMITTER: Hansen KW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11019303 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature