Movement ecology of vulnerable lowland tapirs between areas of varying human disturbance.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Animal movement is a key ecological process that is tightly coupled to local environmental conditions. While agriculture, urbanisation, and transportation infrastructure are critical to human socio-economic improvement, these have spurred substantial changes in animal movement across the globe with potential impacts on fitness and survival. Notably, however, human disturbance can have differential effects across species, and responses to human activities are thus largely taxa and context specific. As human disturbance is only expected to worsen over the next decade it is critical to better understand how species respond to human disturbance in order to develop effective, case-specific conservation strategies.

Methods

Here, we use an extensive telemetry dataset col

SUBMITTER: Medici EP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8919628 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature