Species differences in temporal response to urbanization alters predator-prey and human overlap in northern Utah
Wildlife are under continuous pressure to adapt to new environments as more land area is converted for human use and human populations continue to concentrate in suburban and exurban areas. This is especially the case for terrestrial mammals, which are forced to navigate these habitat matrices on fo...
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| author | Austin M. Green Kelsey A. Barnick Mary E. Pendergast Çağan H. Şekercioğlu |
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| description | Wildlife are under continuous pressure to adapt to new environments as more land area is converted for human use and human populations continue to concentrate in suburban and exurban areas. This is especially the case for terrestrial mammals, which are forced to navigate these habitat matrices on foot. One way in which mammals may occupy urbanized landscapes is by altering their temporal activity behavior. Typically, studies have found that mammals increase their nocturnal activity within urbanized environments to avoid overlap with humans. However, to date, the majority of studies on this topic have focused on single species, and studying whether this trend holds across an entire community has important ecological implications. Specifically, understanding how differences in species temporal activity response alters predator-prey dynamics and sympatric interspecies competition can provide insight into urban wildlife community assembly and provide a mechanistic understanding of species co-occurrence within these systems. In this study, we used data from a community science camera trapping project in northern Utah to elucidate how human influence alters the temporal activity behavior of five medium- to large-sized mammals and how differences in species response affect predator-prey, human, and sympatric competitor temporal niche overlap. We found community-wide changes in activity across study sites, with increases in late night and midday activity and decreases in crepuscular activity within the more-urbanized site. However, species-specific behavioral changes varied, and these changes resulted in reduced overlap, especially between coyotes (Canis latrans) and their potential prey species. These results provide information on how human influence may alter community assembly and species-species interactions within a wildland-urban interface. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-eafbc80d5f264f458ec2a354507582022022-12-22T03:35:14ZengElsevierGlobal Ecology and Conservation2351-98942022-08-0136e02127Species differences in temporal response to urbanization alters predator-prey and human overlap in northern UtahAustin M. Green0Kelsey A. Barnick1Mary E. Pendergast2Çağan H. Şekercioğlu3University of Utah (School of Biological Sciences), Salt Lake City, UT, United States; Corresponding author.University of Illinois-Chicago (School of Public Health), Chicago, IL, United StatesSageland Collaborative, Salt Lake City, UT, United StatesUniversity of Utah (School of Biological Sciences), Salt Lake City, UT, United States; Koç University (College of Sciences), Sarıyer, Istanbul, TurkeyWildlife are under continuous pressure to adapt to new environments as more land area is converted for human use and human populations continue to concentrate in suburban and exurban areas. This is especially the case for terrestrial mammals, which are forced to navigate these habitat matrices on foot. One way in which mammals may occupy urbanized landscapes is by altering their temporal activity behavior. Typically, studies have found that mammals increase their nocturnal activity within urbanized environments to avoid overlap with humans. However, to date, the majority of studies on this topic have focused on single species, and studying whether this trend holds across an entire community has important ecological implications. Specifically, understanding how differences in species temporal activity response alters predator-prey dynamics and sympatric interspecies competition can provide insight into urban wildlife community assembly and provide a mechanistic understanding of species co-occurrence within these systems. In this study, we used data from a community science camera trapping project in northern Utah to elucidate how human influence alters the temporal activity behavior of five medium- to large-sized mammals and how differences in species response affect predator-prey, human, and sympatric competitor temporal niche overlap. We found community-wide changes in activity across study sites, with increases in late night and midday activity and decreases in crepuscular activity within the more-urbanized site. However, species-specific behavioral changes varied, and these changes resulted in reduced overlap, especially between coyotes (Canis latrans) and their potential prey species. These results provide information on how human influence may alter community assembly and species-species interactions within a wildland-urban interface.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989422001299Camera trappingCitizen scienceTemporal activityCommunity ecologyUrban ecologySpecies co-occurrence |
| spellingShingle | Austin M. Green Kelsey A. Barnick Mary E. Pendergast Çağan H. Şekercioğlu Species differences in temporal response to urbanization alters predator-prey and human overlap in northern Utah Global Ecology and Conservation Camera trapping Citizen science Temporal activity Community ecology Urban ecology Species co-occurrence |
| title | Species differences in temporal response to urbanization alters predator-prey and human overlap in northern Utah |
| title_full | Species differences in temporal response to urbanization alters predator-prey and human overlap in northern Utah |
| title_fullStr | Species differences in temporal response to urbanization alters predator-prey and human overlap in northern Utah |
| title_full_unstemmed | Species differences in temporal response to urbanization alters predator-prey and human overlap in northern Utah |
| title_short | Species differences in temporal response to urbanization alters predator-prey and human overlap in northern Utah |
| title_sort | species differences in temporal response to urbanization alters predator prey and human overlap in northern utah |
| topic | Camera trapping Citizen science Temporal activity Community ecology Urban ecology Species co-occurrence |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989422001299 |
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