Secrets of Success in a Landscape of Fear: Urban Wild Boar Adjust Risk Perception and Tolerate Disturbance

Secrets of Success in a Landscape of Fear: Urban Wild Boar Adjust Risk Perception and Tolerate Disturbance

In urban areas with a high level of human disturbance, wildlife has to adjust its behavior to deal with the so called “landscape of fear.” This can be studied in risk perception during movement in relation to specific habitat types, whereby individuals trade-off between foraging and disturbance. Due...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Milena Stillfried, Pierre Gras, Konstantin Börner, Frank Göritz, Johanna Painer, Kathleen Röllig, Moritz Wenzler, Heribert Hofer, Sylvia Ortmann, Stephanie Kramer-Schadt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Subjects:
behavioral adjustment
GPS-telemetry
habitat selection
human wildlife conflict
ungulate
correlated random walk
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fevo.2017.00157/full

Internet

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fevo.2017.00157/full

Similar Items