Carnivore distribution across habitats in a central-European landscape: a camera trap study

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Alternative codes found

RIV/67985939:_____/18:00495002 RIV/00216208:11310/18:10386082

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.770.22554" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.770.22554</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.770.22554" target="_blank" >10.3897/zookeys.770.22554</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Carnivore distribution across habitats in a central-European landscape: a camera trap study

Original language description

Quantitative data on local variation in patterns of occurrence of common carnivore species, such as the red fox, European badger, or martens in central Europe are largely missing. We conducted a study focusing on carnivore ecology and distribution in a cultural landscape with the use of modern technology. We placed 73 automated infra-red camera traps into four different habitats differing in water availability and canopy cover (mixed forest, wetland, shrubby grassland and floodplain forest) in the Polabi region near Prague, Czech Republic. Each habitat was represented by three or four spatially isolated sites within which the camera traps were distributed. During the year of the study, we recorded nine carnivore species, including the non-native golden jackal. Habitats with the highest numbers of records pooled across all species were wetland (1279) and shrubby grassland (1014); fewer records were made in mixed (876) and floodplain forest (734). Habitat had a significant effect on the number of records of badger and marten, and a marginally significant effect on fox. In terms of seasonal dynamics, there were significant differences in the distribution of records among seasons in fox, marginally significant in least weasel, and the occurrence among seasons did not differ for badger and marten. In the summer, fox and marten were more active than expected by chance during the day, while the pattern was opposite in winter when they were more active during the night. Our findings on habitat preferences and circadian and seasonal activity provided the first quantitative data on patterns whose existence was assumed on the basis of conventional wisdom. Our study demonstrates the potential of a long-term monitoring approach based on infra-red camera traps. Generally, the rather frequent occurrence of recorded species indicates that most carnivore specks are thriving in current central-European landscapes characterized by human-driven disturbances and urbanization.

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

10618 - Ecology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>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

ZooKeys

ISSN

1313-2989

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

Neuveden

Issue of the periodical within the volume

770

Country of publishing house

BG - BULGARIA

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

227-246

UT code for WoS article

000437333100009

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85050380845