Spotted hyaena space use in relation to human infrastructure inside a protected area

dc.contributor.authorBelton, L.E. (Lydia)
dc.contributor.authorCameron, Elissa Z.
dc.contributor.authorDalerum, Fredrik
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-02T07:44:55Z
dc.date.available2017-06-02T07:44:55Z
dc.date.issued2016-10-19
dc.descriptionSupplement 1. Estimation of convergence of home range size estimates. To evaluate whether or not we had sufficient sample sizes to estimate seasonal home ranges we created accumulation curves for each clan and season. We created randomized sets of coordinates with increasing sample sizes from 10 relocations up to the actual sample size used for each seasonal range. For each sample size, we randomly drew 100 data sets without replacements from the original sets of coordinates that was utilized to calculate each seasonal home range, and for each random data set we calculated the area covered by a 100% MCP. These areas were plotted against sample size. (10.7717/peerj.2596/supp-1)
dc.descriptionSupplement 2. Raw data on animal locations. (DOI: 10.7717/peerj.2596/supp-2)
dc.description.abstractIncreasing human population growth has led to elevated levels of human-carnivore conflict. However, some carnivore populations have adapted to urban environments and the resources they supply. Such associations may influence carnivore ecology, behaviour and life-history. Pockets of urbanisation sometimes occur within protected areas, so that anthropogenic influences on carnivore biology are not necessarily confined to unprotected areas. In this study we evaluated associations between human infrastructure and related activity and space use of spotted hyaenas within one of the largest protected areas in South Africa, the Kruger National Park. Home range size was smaller for the dominant female of a clan living in close proximity to humans than that of the dominant female of a clan without direct access to human infrastructure. The home range including human infrastructure was also used less evenly during the night, presumably when the animals were active. Within this home range, a village area was preferred during the night, when the least modified areas within the village were preferred and administration and highly modified areas were avoided. During the day, however, there were no preference or avoidance of the village area, but all habitats except unmodified habitats within the village area were avoided.Wesuggest that human infrastructure and associated activity influenced hyaena space use, primarily through alterations in the spatial distribution of food. However, these effects may have been indirectly caused by habitat modification that generated favourable hunting habitat rather than a direct effect caused by access to human food such as garbage. Because of the often pivotal effects of apex predators in terrestrial ecosystems, we encourage further work aimed to quantify how human presence influences large carnivores and associated ecosystem processes within protected areas.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentMammal Research Instituteen_ZA
dc.description.departmentZoology and Entomologyen_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2017en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipThis study was funded through incentive funding for rated researchers by the National Research Foundation (E Cameron, F Dalerum), a research fellowship from University of Pretoria (F Dalerum) as well as a Ramón y Cajal fellowship by the Spanish Ministry of Comptitiveness and Economy (F Dalerum).en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://peerj.comen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationBelton, L.E., Cameron, E.Z. & Dalerum, F. (2016), Spotted hyaena space use in relation to human infrastructure inside a protected area. PeerJ, 4:e2596; DOI 10.7717/peerj.2596.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2167-8359
dc.identifier.other10.7717/peerj.2596
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/60761
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherPeerJen_ZA
dc.rights© Copyright 2016 Belton et al. Distributed under Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0.en_ZA
dc.subjectCarnivoreen_ZA
dc.subjectHyaenidaeen_ZA
dc.subjectCrocuta crocuttaen_ZA
dc.subjectAnthropogenic effectsen_ZA
dc.subjectHome rangeen_ZA
dc.subjectHabitat selectionen_ZA
dc.subjectAfricaen_ZA
dc.subjectCarnivoraen_ZA
dc.subjectResource dispersionen_ZA
dc.titleSpotted hyaena space use in relation to human infrastructure inside a protected areaen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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