Habitat selection by free-roaming domestic dogs in rabies endemic countries in rural and urban settings.

ABSTRACT: Domestic dogs can affect human health through bites and pathogen transmission, particularly in resource-poor countries where dogs, including owned ones, predominantly roam freely. Habitat and resource selection analysis methods are commonplace in wildlife studies but have not been used to investigate the environmental resource use of free-roaming domestic dogs (FRDD). The present study implements GPS devices to investigate habitat selection by FRDD from an urban site and a rural site in Indonesia, and one urban and two rural sites in Guatemala (N = 321 dogs). Spatial mixed effects logistic regression models, accounting for heterogeneous distribution of the resources, showed that patterns of habitat selection by FRDD were similar across study sites. The most preferred resources were anthrop

SUBMITTER: Cunha Silva L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9719531 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature