Global Change Biology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 31(2)
Published: Feb. 1, 2025
Brown bears across Europe are responding to the human footprint, with space use and movement behaviour strongly influenced by limited habitat connectivity. While natural food availability suitability remain important for bears, growing pressure is increasingly constraining their ecological role. The picture was drawn Andrea Gazzola.
Language: Английский
Global Change Biology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 31(1)
Published: Jan. 1, 2025
ABSTRACT Three‐quarters of the planet's land surface has been altered by humans, with consequences for animal ecology, movements and related ecosystem functioning. Species often occupy wide geographical ranges contrasting human disturbance environmental conditions, yet, limited data availability across species' constrained our understanding how pressure resource jointly shape intraspecific variation space use. Leveraging a unique dataset 758 annual GPS movement trajectories from 375 brown bears ( Ursus arctos ) range in Europe, we investigated effects (i.e., footprint index), predictability, forest cover disturbance, area‐based conservation measures on bear We quantified use at different spatiotemporal scales during growing season (May–September): home size; representing general requirements, 10‐day long‐distance displacement distances, routine 1‐day distances. found large all scales, which was profoundly affected index, vegetation productivity, recent disturbances creating opportunity pulses. Bears occupied smaller moved less more anthropized landscapes areas higher predictability. Forest reduced while contiguous promoted longer daily movements. The amount strictly protected roadless within too small to affect Anthropized may hinder expansion isolated populations, such as Apennine Pyrenean, obstruct population connectivity, example between Dinaric Pindos Alpine or Carpathian population. Our findings call actions maintain high footprint, maintaining integrity, support viable populations their functions.
Language: Английский
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Global Change Biology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 31(2)
Published: Feb. 1, 2025
Brown bears across Europe are responding to the human footprint, with space use and movement behaviour strongly influenced by limited habitat connectivity. While natural food availability suitability remain important for bears, growing pressure is increasingly constraining their ecological role. The picture was drawn Andrea Gazzola.
Language: Английский
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