Behavioral "bycatch" from camera trap surveys yields insights on prey responses to human-mediated predation risk.

ABSTRACT: Human disturbance directly affects animal populations and communities, but indirect effects of disturbance on species behaviors are less well understood. For instance, disturbance may alter predator activity and cause knock-on effects to predator-sensitive foraging in prey. Camera traps provide an emerging opportunity to investigate such disturbance-mediated impacts to animal behaviors across multiple scales. We used camera trap data to test predictions about predator-sensitive behavior in three ungulate species (caribou Rangifer tarandus; white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus; moose, Alces alces) across two western boreal forest landscapes varying in disturbance. We quantified behavior as the number of camera trap photos per detection event and tested its relation

SUBMITTER: Burton AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9288887 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature