Recreational activities affect resting site selection and foraging time of Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx)

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41320/18:N0000053

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=2odeYl7rQ7" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=2odeYl7rQ7</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4404/hystrix-00053-2018" target="_blank" >10.4404/hystrix-00053-2018</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Recreational activities affect resting site selection and foraging time of Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx)

Original language description

Over the past decades, non-consumptive outdoor recreation has intensified, resulting in a more widespread and regular human presence in natural habitats, including protected areas. This has shown to negatively affect several animal species, and in some cases, cause their decline. Therefore, understanding the impacts of recreation on protected species is fundamental. In the Bohemian Forest Ecosystem, we GPS-monitored the Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx), generally considered tolerant to human presence. We tested whether the local level of recreation influenced (a) time spent by lynx at killed prey, both in terms of number of hours each night and of number of nights at each killed prey (i.e. feeding behavior) and (b) selection of daytime resting sites. Furthermore, we checked whether each behavior was influenced by local habitat features ensuring low accessibility to people and high protective cover, and by the level of nature protection assigned to different parts of the study area, all of which likely influence perceived risk by lynx. Finally, we tested for seasonal (winter vs. summer) changes in these variables&apos; effects. Throughout the year, the local intensity and recurrence of recreation was negatively correlated with the probability that lynx would use a given location for daytime resting and with the number of hours that lynx spent at a given killed prey each night. Furthermore, habitat features providing protective cover positively correlated with both behaviors, and the probability that lynx would use a given location for daytime resting was higher inside than outside protected areas. Finally, recreation negatively correlated with the number of nights lynx spent at killed prey only in winter (i.e. October-April). These findings can be applied when planning recreational activities, and generally highlight the need for a deeper understanding of the impacts of human activities across a range of species.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10613 - Zoology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Hystrix

ISSN

0394-1914

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

29

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

IT - ITALY

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

181-189

UT code for WoS article

000458756600005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85067405943