Impact of food availability and predator presence on patterns of landscape partitioning among neighbouring Guinea baboon (Papio papio) parties.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Access to critical resources, including food, water, or shelter, significantly determines individual fitness. As these resources are limited in most habitats, animals may employ strategies of landscape partitioning to mitigate the impact of direct resource competition. Territoriality may be regarded as an aggressive form of landscape partitioning, but other forms of landscape partitioning exist in non-territorial species. Animals living in groups with greater flexibility in their association patterns, such as multilevel societies with fission-fusion dynamics, may adjust their grouping and space use patterns to short-term variations in ecological conditions such as food availability, predation pressure, or the presence of conspecific groups. This flexibility may allow the

SUBMITTER: Ohrndorf L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11847332 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature