Adaptation of farmland mammalian specialist to urban life: Escape behavior of European hare along the urban-rural gradient.

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Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41320/24:98673 RIV/60460709:41330/24:98673 RIV/00020702:_____/24:N0000030
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969724059357" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969724059357</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.175779" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.175779</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Adaptation of farmland mammalian specialist to urban life: Escape behavior of European hare along the urban-rural gradient.
Original language description
The European hare Lepus europaeus is an iconic but rapidly declining farmland specialist with recently confirmed populations in urban areas. However, their behavioral responses and adaptability to urbanization and life in human-dominated areas are fully unexplored. Here, using infrared cameras, we explored escape behavior (measured as the flight initiation distance) using 965 hare observations in urban and farmland areas in the Czech Republic and Austria (Central Europe) and its association with habitat type, distance to the city center, patch size, season, hare age and initial behavior. We found that European hares adjusted their escape behavior to habitat type and escaped significantly earlier in farmland (rural) habitats than in urban habitats. However, escape distances of hares did not differ between farmland types with different degree of habitat heterogeneity. We also revealed that urban hares escaped earlier when located further from the city center or in a larger study patch. Moreover, adult hares escaped earlier than subadults and foraging individuals escaped earlier than resting hares but both only in rural areas. Our results support high behavioral adaptability of European hares to human-dominated urban areas.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
<a href="/en/project/SS05010238" target="_blank" >SS05010238: Conservation measures for fragmented populations of European hare (Lepus europaeus) in contrasting farmlands: from research to applied conservation</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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