Monitoring frequency influences the analysis of resting behaviour in a forest carnivore

Ecological Research

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 537-546

  Carvalho, Filipe ^a   Carvalho, Rafael ^a   Galantinho, Ana ^a   Mira, António ^a   Beja, Pedro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Carnivores; Data thinning; Forest ecology; Resting sites; Sampling regime

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MAMMAL; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POPULATION DENSITY; RADIOTELEMETRY; RESTING STAGE; SAMPLING; SURVIVAL; THINNING;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84929702217     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-015-1253-7     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Aubry KB, Raley KM, Buskirk SW, Zielinski WJ, Schwartz MK, Golightly RT, Purcell KL, Wier RD, Yaeger JS (2013) Meta-analyses of habitat selection by fishers at resting sites in the Pacific Coastal Region. J Wild Manage 77:965–974. doi:10.1002/jwmg.563
2. Baguette M, Blanchet S, Legrand D, Stevens VM, Turlure C (2013) Individual dispersal, landscape connectivity and ecological networks. Biol Rev 88:310–326. doi:10.1111/brv.12000
3. Banks SC, Lindenmayer DB, McBurney L, Blair D, Knight EJ, Blyton MDJ (2011) Kin selection in den sharing develops under limited availability of tree hollows for a forest marsupial. Proc R Soc B 278:2768–2776. doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.2657
4. Barton K (2013) MuMIn: multi-model inference. R package version 1.9.0. http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=MuMIn
5. Bates D, Maechler M, Bolker B (2013) lme4: linear mixed-effects models using S4 classes. R package version 0.999999-2. http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=lme4
6. Birks JDS, Messenger JE, Halliwell EC (2005) Diversity of den sites used by pine martens Martes martes: a response to the scarcity of arboreal cavities? Mamm Rev 35:313–320. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2907.2005.00068.x
7. Boitani L, Powel RA (2012) Carnivore ecology and conservation: a handbook of techniques. Oxford University Press, Oxford
8. Brainerd SM, Helldin JO, Lindstrom ER, Rolstad E, Rolstad J, Storch I (1995) Pine marten (Martes martes) selection of resting and denning sites in Scandinavian managed forests. Ann Zool Fenn 32:151–157 ISSN: 0003-455X
9. Brown DD, Montgomery RA, Millspaugh JJ, Jansen PA, Garzon-Lopez CX, Kays R (2014) Selection and spatial arrangement of rest sites within northern tamandua home ranges. J Zool 293:160–170. doi:10.1111/jzo.12131
10. Burnham KP, Anderson DR (2002) Model selection and multimodel inference: a practical information-theoretic approach, 2nd edn. Springer, New York
11. Camps D (2011) Resting site selection, characteristics and use by the common genet Genetta genetta (Linnaeus 1758). Mammalia 75:23–29. doi:10.1515/MAMM.2010.061
12. Carroll C, Zielinski WJ, Noss RF (1999) Using presence-absence data to build and test spatial habitat models for the fisher in the Klamath region, USA. Conserv Biol 13:1344–1359. doi:10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.98364.x
13. Carvalho F, Carvalho R, Mira A, Beja P (2014) Use of tree hollows by a Mediterranean forest carnivore. For Ecol Manag 315:54–62. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2013.12.013
14. Crooks KR, Burdett CL, Theobald DM, Rondinini C, Boitani L (2011) Global patterns of fragmentation and connectivity of mammalian carnivore habitat. Phil Trans R Soc B 366:2642–2651. doi:10.1098/rstb.2011.0120
15. Fontaneto D, Barbosa AM, Segers H, Pautasso M (2012) The ‘rotiferologist’ effect and other global correlates of species richness in monogonont rotifers. Ecography 35:174–182. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.06850.x
16. Galantinho A, Mira A (2009) The influence of human, livestock, and ecological features on the occurrence of genets (Genetta genetta): a case study on Mediterranean farmland. Ecol Res 24:671–685. doi:10.1007/s11284-008-0538-5
17. Genovesi P, Boitani L (1997) Day resting sites of the stone marten. Hystrix 9:75–78. doi:10.4404/hystrix-9.1-2-4114
18. Gess SW, Ellington EH, Dzialak MR, Duchamp JE, Lovallo M, Larkin JL (2013) Rest-site selection by fishers (Martes pennanti) in the eastern deciduous forest. Wild Soc Bull 37:805–814. doi:10.1002/wsb.300
19. Gibbons P, Lindenmayer D (2002) Tree hollows and wildlife conservation in Australia. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood
20. Gibbons P, Lindenmayer DB, Fischer J, Manning AD, Weinberg A et al (2008) The future of scattered trees in agricultural landscapes. Conserv Biol 22:1309–1319. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.00997.x
21. Giraudoux P (2013) pgirmess: data analysis in ecology. R package version 1.5.8. http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=pgirmess
22. Herr J, Schley L, Engel E, Roper TJ (2010) Den preferences and denning behaviour in urban stone martens (Martes foina). Mamm Biol 75:138–145. doi:10.1016/j.mambio.2008.12.002
23. IPMA (Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera) (2012) Normais climatológicas (1971–2000). Available: http://www.ipma.pt. Accessed 26 March 2012
24. Jerosh S, Götz M, Klar N, Roth M (2010) Characteristics of diurnal resting sites of the endangered European wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris): implications for its conservation. J Nat Conserv 18:45–54. doi:10.1016/j.jnc.2009.02.005
25. Krebs CJ (1989) Ecological methodology. Harper Collins Publisher, New York
26. Lahoz-Monfort JJ, Harris MP, Morgan BJT, Freeman SN, Wanless S (2014) Exploring the consequences of reducing monitoring survey effort for detecting individual and temporal variability in survival. J Appl Ecol 51:534–543. doi:10.1111/1365-2664.12214
27. Lindenmayer DB, Blanchard W, McBurney L, Blair D, Banks S, Likens GE, Franklin JF, Laurance WF, Stein JAR, Gibbons P (2012a) Interacting factors driving a major loss of large trees with cavities in a forest ecosystem. PLoS One 7:e41864. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041864
28. Lindenmayer DB, Laurance WF, Franklin JF (2012b) Global decline in large old trees. Science 338:1305–1306. doi:10.1126/science.1231070
29. Lindenmayer DB, Laurance WF, Franklin JF, Likens GE, Banks SC, Blanchard W, Gibbons P, Ikin K, Blair D, McBurney L, Manning AD, Stein JAR (2014) New policies for old trees: averting a global crisis in a keystone ecological structure. Conserv Lett 7:61–69. doi:10.1111/conl.12013
30. Manning AD, Gibbons P, Fischer J, Oliver DL, Lindenmayer DB (2013) Hollow futures? Tree decline, lag effects and hollow-dependent species. Anim Conserv 16:395–403. doi:10.1111/acv.12006
31. Matos HM, Santos MJ, Palomares F, Santos-Reis M (2009) Does riparian habitat condition influence mammalian carnivore abundance in Mediterranean ecosystems? Biodivers Conserv 18:373–386. doi:10.1007/s10531-008-9493-2
32. Millspaugh JJ, Marzluff JM (eds) (2001) Radio tracking and animal populations. Academic Press, Washington
33. Oksanen J, Kindt R, Legendre P, O’Hara B, Simpson GL, Solymos P, Stevens MHH, Wagner H (2015) Vegan: community ecology package. R package version 2.2-1. http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/vegan/index.html
34. Palomares F, Delibes M (1994) Spatio-temporal ecology and behaviour of European genets in southwestern Spain. J Mamm 75:714–724. doi:10.2307/1382521
35. Pereira M, Rodríguez A (2010) Conservation value of linear woody remnants for two forest carnivores in a Mediterranean agricultural landscape. J App Ecol 47:611–620. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01804.x
36. Purcell KL, Mazzoni AK, Mori SR, Boroski BB (2009) Resting structures and resting habitat of fishers in the southern Sierra Nevada, California. For Ecol Manag 258:2696–2706. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2009.09.041
37. Rosalino LM, Santos-Reis M (2002) Feeding habits of the common genet Genetta genetta (Carnivora: Viverridae) in a semi-natural landscape of Central Portugal. Mammalia 66:195–205. doi:10.1515/mamm.2002.66.2.195
38. Ross S, Kamnitzer R, Munkhtsog B, Harris S (2010) Den-site selection is critical for Pallas’s cats (Otocolobus manul). Can J Zool 88:905–913. doi:10.1139/Z10-056
39. Santos MJ, Matos HM, Palomares F, Santos-Reis M (2011) Factors affecting mammalian carnivore use of riparian ecosystems in Mediterranean climates. J Mamm 92:1060–1069. doi:10.1644/10-MAMM-A-009.1
40. Santos-Reis M, Santos MJ, Lourenço S, Marques JT, Pereira I, Pinto B (2004) Relationships between stone martens, genets and cork oak woodlands in Portugal. In: Harrison DJ, Fuller AK, Proulx G (eds) Marten and fishers (Martes) in human-altered environments: an international perspective. Springer Science and Business Media Inc, New York, pp 147–172
41. Siegel S, Castellan NJ Jr (1988) Non parametric statistics for the behavioral sciences. MacGraw Hill Int, New York
42. Sikes RS, Gannon WL, Animal Care and Use Committee of the American Society of Mammalogists (2011) Guidelines of the American Society of Mammalogists for the use of wild mammals in research. J Mamm 92:235–253. doi:10.1644/10-MAMM-F-355.1
43. Slauson KM, Zielinski WJ (2009) Characteristics of summer and fall diurnal resting habitat used by American martens in coastal Northwestern California. Northwest Sci 83:35–45. doi:10.3955/046.083.0104
44. Virgós E, Llorente M, Cortes Y (1999) Geographical variation in genet (Genetta genetta L. 1758) diet: a literature review. Mamm Rev 292:119–128. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2907.1999.00041.x
45. Weir RD, Phinney M, Lofroth EC (2012) Big, sick, and rotting: why tree size, damage, and decay are important to fisher reproductive habitat. For Ecol Manag 265:230–240. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2011.10.043
46. Zabala J, Zuberogoitia I, Garin I, Aihartza J (2001) Small carnivore trappability: seasonal changes and mortality. A case study on European mink (Mustela lutreola) and Spotted genet (Genetta genetta). Small Carnivore Conserv 25:9–11 ISNN: 1019-5041
47. Zalewski A (1997) Patterns of resting site use by pine marten in primeval deciduous forests (Bialowieza National Park, Poland). Acta Ther 42:153–168 ISSN: 0001-7051
48. Zielinski WJ, Truex RL, Schmidt GA, Schlexer FV, Schmidt KN, Barrett RH (2004) Resting habitat selection by fishers in California. J Wild Manag 68:475–492. doi:10.2193/0022-541X(2004)068[0475:RHSBFI]2.0.CO;2
49. Zuur AF, Ieno EN, Walker NJ, Saveliev AA, Smith GM (2009) Mixed effects model and extensions in ecology with R. Springer, New York