What is a season to an oryx? Movement rates identify three seasons for scimitar-horned oryx reintroduced into their native range.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Abundant evidence exists that mobile animals exhibit different movement behavior during different seasons, especially in landscapes with strong seasonal variation in climate and resource availability. Quantifying seasonal movement dynamics is critical for making accurate inferences and appropriate recommendations for species conservation and landscape management. Using empirical approaches to characterize seasonal variation in animal movement minimizes assumptions about the timing of seasonal transitions, environmental proxies, and effects of spatiotemporal variation.

Methods

We calculated 57,255 mean daytime hourly movement rates for 104 scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah) released into a large protected area in central Chad from 2016 to 2022. We used these moveme

SUBMITTER: Whyle K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12309194 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature