*Who is adjusting to whom?: Differences in elephant diel activity in
wildlife corridors across different human-modified landscapesTempe S. F.
Adams, Keith E. A. Leggett, Michael J. Chase & Marlee A. TuckerFrontiers in
Conservation ScienceJuly 28, 2022Abstract *
The global impact of increased human activities has consequences on the
conservation of wildlife. Understanding how wildlife adapts to increased
human pressures with urban expansion and agricultural areas is fundamental
to future conservation plans of any species. However, there is a belief
that large wild free-ranging carnivores and ungulates, cannot coexist with
people, limited studies have looked at wildlife movements through differing
human-dominated landscapes at finer spatial scales, in Africa. This
information is vital as the human population is only going to increase and
the wildlife protected areas decrease. We used remote-sensor camera traps
to identify the movement patterns of African elephant (Loxodonta africana)
through six wildlife corridors in Botswana. The wildlife corridors were
located in two different human-dominated landscapes (agricultural/urban),
with varying degrees of human impact. While we found that elephants use
corridors in both landscapes, they use the urban corridors both diurnally
and nocturnally in contrast to agricultural corridors which were only
nocturnal. Our results provide evidence for temporal partitioning of
corridor use by elephants. We identified that seasonality and landscape
were important factors in determining the presence of elephants in the
corridors. Our findings demonstrate that elephant diel patterns of use of
the wildlife corridor differs based on the surrounding human land-uses on
an hourly basis and daily basis, revealing potential adaptation and risk
avoidance behaviour.
ABSTRACT PDF
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/13Bn-Weg3pENaogUSX4pZZJRjzWkTbNlJ/view?usp=sharing
ABSTRACT
WEB LINKhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2022.872472/full
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2022.872472/full
*Who is adjusting to whom?: Differences in elephant diel activity in
wildlife corridors across different human-modified landscapesTempe S. F.
Adams, Keith E. A. Leggett, Michael J. Chase & Marlee A. TuckerFrontiers in
Conservation ScienceJuly 28, 2022Abstract *
The global impact of increased human activities has consequences on the
conservation of wildlife. Understanding how wildlife adapts to increased
human pressures with urban expansion and agricultural areas is fundamental
to future conservation plans of any species. However, there is a belief
that large wild free-ranging carnivores and ungulates, cannot coexist with
people, limited studies have looked at wildlife movements through differing
human-dominated landscapes at finer spatial scales, in Africa. This
information is vital as the human population is only going to increase and
the wildlife protected areas decrease. We used remote-sensor camera traps
to identify the movement patterns of African elephant (Loxodonta africana)
through six wildlife corridors in Botswana. The wildlife corridors were
located in two different human-dominated landscapes (agricultural/urban),
with varying degrees of human impact. While we found that elephants use
corridors in both landscapes, they use the urban corridors both diurnally
and nocturnally in contrast to agricultural corridors which were only
nocturnal. Our results provide evidence for temporal partitioning of
corridor use by elephants. We identified that seasonality and landscape
were important factors in determining the presence of elephants in the
corridors. Our findings demonstrate that elephant diel patterns of use of
the wildlife corridor differs based on the surrounding human land-uses on
an hourly basis and daily basis, revealing potential adaptation and risk
avoidance behaviour.
*ABSTRACT PDF
LINKhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/13Bn-Weg3pENaogUSX4pZZJRjzWkTbNlJ/view?usp=sharing
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/13Bn-Weg3pENaogUSX4pZZJRjzWkTbNlJ/view?usp=sharing>
ABSTRACT
WEB LINKhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2022.872472/full
<https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2022.872472/full>*
