Temporal scale of habitat selection for large carnivores: Balancing energetics, risk and finding prey.

ABSTRACT: When navigating heterogeneous landscapes, large carnivores must balance trade-offs between multiple goals, including minimizing energetic expenditure, maintaining access to hunting opportunities and avoiding potential risk from humans. The relative importance of these goals in driving carnivore movement likely changes across temporal scales, but our understanding of these dynamics remains limited. Here we quantified how drivers of movement and habitat selection changed with temporal grain for two large carnivore species living in human-dominated landscapes, providing insights into commonalities in carnivore movement strategies across regions. We used high-resolution GPS collar data and integrated step selection analyses to model movement and habitat selection for African lions Panthera leo

SUBMITTER: Nisi AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9298125 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature