AvianBuffer: An interactive tool for characterising and managing wildlife fear responses.

ABSTRACT: The characterisation and management of deleterious processes affecting wildlife are ideally based on sound scientific information. However, relevant information is often absent, or difficult to access or contextualise for specific management purposes. We describe 'AvianBuffer', an interactive online tool enabling the estimation of distances at which Australian birds respond fearfully to humans. Users can input species assemblages and determine a 'separation distance' above which the assemblage is predicted to not flee humans. They can also nominate the diversity they wish to minimise disturbance to, or a specific separation distance to obtain an estimate of the diversity that will remain undisturbed. The dataset is based upon flight-initiation distances (FIDs) from 251 Australian bird spec

SUBMITTER: Guay PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5055477 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature