Living on the boundary of a post-disturbance forest area: The negative influence of security cover on red deer home range size

Borkowski, Jakub; Ukalska, Joanna; Jurkiewicz, Jolanta; Chećko, Ewa

doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2016.09.009

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“…In order to investigate the effect of hunting on red deer selection pattern, we divided the dataset into two contrasting periods (thereafter ‘seasons’) according to regimes of red deer hunting during the course of the study (Borkowski et al ., ): no‐hunting from 1 March to 31 August and hunting : red deer males–from 16 September to end of February; females–from 1 October to 15 January, calves from 1 October to end of February. In practice, a great majority of the females, at least 50–60% of the males and a similar proportion of the calves are harvested by mid‐December.…”

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“…Planted stands were interspersed with 17 km 2 of naturally regenerated stands in which pine and birch each covered half of the area. Fourteen years after the fire, the disturbed patches were dominated by pre-thicket and thicket stages, providing abundant cover (Borkowski, 2004;Borkowski et al, 2016). Also, lowered post-fire soil quality favoured wood-small reed (Calamagrostis epigejos) expansion (Łukaszewicz, 1998).…”

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“…We relocated each individual using triangulation 1-3 times per 24-h period three times per week, with at least 1 day break between consecutive tracking sessions. We estimated locational error at <50 m (Borkowski et al, 2016).…”

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“…Specifically, we modelled habitat selection by red deer during the pre-thicket and thicket successional stages 13-14 years after the fire at the annual, seasonal and diel temporal scales. In these pre-thicket and thicket stages following the fire the post-disturbance areas provided ample cover, but were less abundant in food resources than undisturbed forests (Borkowski, 2004;Borkowski et al, 2016). We predicted that at the second order of selection (Johnson, 1980;Meyer & Thuiller, 2006) red deer should place their annual home-ranges at the fire edge interface (prediction 1).…”

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Safety first: seasonal and diel habitat selection patterns by red deer in a contrasted landscape

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Jurkiewicz³

et al. 2019

Journal of Zoology

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Spatially heterogeneous landscapes provide solutions to the forage‐safety trade‐off when animals can access risky but energetically rewarding patches, or safer but resource‐poor patches. It can be advantageous for an animal to secure access to habitat heterogeneity at a broader scale in order to be able to dynamically adjust finer scale habitat use through time. We tested the hypothesis of a forage‐safety trade‐off optimization tactic in a hunted red deer (Cervus elaphus) population following a large accidental forest fire. We used telemetry data and fitted resource selection functions at the second‐ and third‐order scales. We then integrated the order‐specific probabilities into single, all‐in‐one multi‐level layers that synthetically captured the habitat selection patterns across scales by informing landscape‐scale annual habitat selectivity with finer within‐home‐range seasonal and diel processes. At the landscape scale, red deer anchored their home‐range at the interface of the disturbed and undisturbed patches, thereby securing habitat heterogeneity. This consequently enabled them to modulate within‐home‐range habitat selection depending on the season and the time of the day. In both seasons, red deer consistently used the burnt area for cover more during the day, and foraged in the unburnt forest and open fields at night. Interestingly there were no major seasonal differences in this diel habitat selection patterns. Increased mortality risk during the hunting season did not substantially change their spatial behaviour. We conclude that year‐round avoidance of non‐lethal human disturbance is the main driver of red deer habitat use in this system.

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“…Various studies have been conducted to understand the association between variation in range size and environment factors such as climate (e.g., Whitton et al, 2011;Sheldon & Tewksbury, 2014), disturbance (e.g., Lozada et al, 2008;Borkowski et al, 2016), competition (e.g., Glazier & Eckert, 2002;Grigione et al, 2010), and the mid-domain effect (e.g., Luo et al, 2011). Climate factor is the most widely supported driver in terms of both latitudinal and elevational variation in range size.…”

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Climate driven elevational variation of vascular plants range size in the central Himalayas: a supporting case for Rapoport’s rule

Liang

Ding

Lie³

et al. 2020

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How and why species range size varies along spatial gradients is fundamental yet controversial topics in biogeography. To advance our understanding on these questions and to provide insight into biological conservation, we assessed the elevational variations in vascular plants range size for different life form and biogeographical affinities, and explored the main drivers underlying above variations in the longest valley in China's Himalayas the Gyirong Valley. Elevational range sizes of vascular plants were documented by 96 sampling plots along 12 elevational bands of 300-m ranging from 1800 to 5400 m above sea level. We assessed the elevational variations in range size by averaging the range size of all species within each elevational band. We then related range size to climate, disturbance, competition factors and the mid-domain effect, and explored the relative importance of aforementioned factors in explaining the range size variations using the Random Forest model. Total 545 vascular plants were documented by our sampling plots along the elevational gradient. Out of 545 plants, 158, 387, 337 and 112 were woody, herbaceous, temperate and tropical species respectively. Range size of each groups of vascular plants shown uniform increasing trends along the elevational gradient which are in accordance with the prediction of Rapoport's rule. Climate was the main driver for the increasing trends of vascular plants range size in the Gyirong Valley. Climate variability hypothesis and mean climate condition hypothesis were both supported to jointly explain such climate-range size relationship. Our results reinforce previous notion that Rapoport's rule applies to where the influence of climate is most pronounced, and call for close attention to the impact of climate change in order to prevent range contraction and even extinction under global warming.

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Climate‐driven elevational variation in range sizes of vascular plants in the central Himalayas: A supporting case for Rapoport's rule

Liang

Ding

et al. 2021

Ecology and Evolution

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Living on the boundary of a post-disturbance forest area: The negative influence of security cover on red deer home range size

Cited by 9 publications

References 42 publications

Safety first: seasonal and diel habitat selection patterns by red deer in a contrasted landscape

Safety first: seasonal and diel habitat selection patterns by red deer in a contrasted landscape

Climate driven elevational variation of vascular plants range size in the central Himalayas: a supporting case for Rapoport’s rule

Climate‐driven elevational variation in range sizes of vascular plants in the central Himalayas: A supporting case for Rapoport's rule

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