Ellison, N. orcid.org/0000-0001-6198-5470, Potts, J.R. orcid.org/0000-0002-8564-2904, Boudreau, M.R. orcid.org/0000-0002-6280-5598 et al. (3 more authors) (2024) Social interactions and habitat structure in understanding the dynamic space use of invasive wild pigs. Wildlife Biology: A journal for wildlife science, 2024 (5). e01247. ISSN 0909-6396
Abstract
Untangling the abiotic and biotic feedback mechanisms driving animal movements and ranges is a core question in ecology, yet progress is hampered by inadequate modelling procedures. Here we show how a recently developed process-based modelling approach, combining step-selection functions and individual-based models, enables a flexible method to infer movement drivers and multi-scale emergent space use patterns. As a case study, we examine the movement behaviours of a highly invasive social generalist (wild pigs, Sus scrofa) in relation to conspecific space use and multiple land cover types in a complex agricultural landscape, showing that social interactions are predominantly more important to this species than selection for land cover. Thus, animal movement studies should not neglect the effects of sociality when inferring resource driven movements and, crucially, use multi-scale techniques that incorporate movement processes to untangle drivers of animal space use.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Authors. Wildlife Biology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Nordic Society Oikos. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | process-based models; social interactions; space use; spatial patterns; step-selection; Sus scrofa |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > School of Mathematics and Statistics (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 23 Apr 2024 14:07 |
Last Modified: | 08 Nov 2024 17:08 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/wlb3.01247 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:211730 |