Fast food: GPS tracking reveals behavior-specific habitat selection and cattle farm subsidies of three sympatric neotropical vulture species.

ABSTRACT: Understanding species responses to anthropogenic disturbance is fundamental to ecology and conservation. However, behaviour and inter-individual variation in habitat selection can complicate our understanding of population-level responses to human disturbance, and the initiatives we design to address them. We use a dataset of 601,000 locations from 42 GPS tracked individuals of three sympatric species - king (n = 32), turkey (n = 5) and black vultures (n = 5) - in Costa Rica to explore behaviour-specific habitat selection in a mixed forest-agriculture landscape. We separate the movement data into three key behaviours (flight, feeding and roosting), and then compare their habitat selection preferences using a species-specific generalised mixed modelling framework. We find that the disturban

SUBMITTER: Beirne C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12751625 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature