Human activities reshape the spatial overlap between North Chinese leopard and its wild ungulate prey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rapidly expanding human activities have profoundly changed the habitat use of both large carnivores and their prey, but whether and how human activities affect the interactions between them has received relatively less attention. In this study, we conducted a systematically designed camera-trapping survey on an endangered large carnivore (North Chinese leopard Panthera pardus japonensis) and its wild ungulate prey (Siberian roe deer Capreolus pygargus and wild boar Sus scrofa) in the Taihang Mountains of central North China. Using conditional two-species occupancy model based on data derived from the extensive sampling effort (15,654 camera-days at 102 camera sites), we examined the relationship of spatial use between leopards and each prey species under the effects of h

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11426093 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature