Effects of urbanization on resource use and individual specialization in coyotes (Canis latrans) in southern California.

ABSTRACT: Urban environments are unique because fragments of natural or semi-natural habitat are embedded within a potentially permeable matrix of human-dominated areas, creating increased landscape and, potentially, habitat heterogeneity. In addition, urban areas can provide diet subsidies for wildlife species in the form of fruiting ornamental plants, trash, and domestic animals. Ecological opportunity in the forms of habitat and food heterogeneity are thought to be important mechanisms in maintaining individual specialization. Identifying which contexts, traits, and mechanisms determine the success or failure of individuals within an urban wildlife population could potentially provide predictions about which populations may succeed in human-dominated landscapes and which may experience local exti

SUBMITTER: Larson RN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7001990 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature