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ORCID:0000-0002-4330-7876
Affiliation: Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg (Germany), GRID: 433014.1 and
University of Potsdam, GRID: 11348.3f
Blaum, Niels
ORCID:0000-0001-6807-5162
Affiliation: University of Potsdam, GRID: 11348.3f
Fischer, Christina
ORCID:0000-0001-6807-5162
Affiliation: University of Potsdam, GRID: 11348.3f
Pirhofer-Walzl, Karin
ORCID: 0000-0003-2185-4016
Affiliation: Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg (Germany), GRID: 433014.1
Kramer-Schadt, Stephanie
ORCID: 0000-0002-9269-4446
Affiliation: Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, GRID: 418779.4
DataCollector: Ullmann, Wiebke, University of Potsdam (GRID: GRID: 11348.3f) (ORCID:0000-0002-4330-7876)
DataCollector: Blaum, Niels; University of Potsdam (GRID: GRID: 11348.3f) (ORCID:0000-0001-6807-5162)
DataCollector: Fischer, Christina; University of Potsdam (GRID: GRID: 11348.3f) (ORCID: 0000-0001-6807-5162)
DataCollector: Pirhofer-Walzl, Karin; ZALF, Müncheberg (Germany), (GRID: 433014.1) (ORCID: 0000-0003-2185-4016)
Editor: Blaum, Niels; University of Potsdam (GRID: GRID: 11348.3f) (ORCID:0000-0001-6807-5162)
Editor: Fischer, Christina; University of Potsdam (GRID: GRID: 11348.3f) (ORCID: 0000-0001-6807-5162)
Editor: Pirhofer-Walzl, Karin; ZALF, Müncheberg (Germany), (GRID: 433014.1) (ORCID: 0000-0003-2185-4016)
Editor: Kramer-Schadt, Stephanie; Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, GRID: 418779.4 (ORCID: ORCID: 0000-0002-9269-4446)
GEMET: biodiversity; ecological community; landscape ecology; evolution; animal behaviour
Other: European brown hare; home range size; tracking; resource availability
We investigated whether a given landscape structure affects the level of home range size adaptation in response to resource variability. We tested whether increasing resource variability forces herbivorous mammals to increase their home ranges.
Hares in simple landscapes showed increasing home range sizes with increasing resource variability, whereas hares in complex landscapes did not enlarge their home range.
Animals in complex landscapes have the possibility to include various landscape elements within their home ranges and are more resilient against resource variability. But animals in simple landscapes with few elements experience shortcomings when resource variability becomes high. The increase in home range size, the movement related increase in energy expenditure, and a decrease in hare abundances can have severe implications for conservation of mammals in anthropogenic landscapes. Hence, conservation management could benefit from a better knowledge about fine-scaled effects of resource variability on movement behaviour.
Methods: In 2014 and 2015 we collared 40 European brown hares (Lepus europaeus) with GPS-tags to record hare movements in two regions in Germany with differing landscape structures. We examined hare home range sizes in relation to resource availability and variability by using the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) as a proxy
awardNumber: DFG GRK 2118/1
awardTitle: BioMove Research Training Group
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| Column name | Unit | Description | Instrument | Method | Reference |
| Scene_ID | - | ID number of the USGS EarthExplorer remote sensing image | - | - | https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ |
| Image_Date | - | date image was taken | - | - | - |
| Path | - | path ID number of the USGS EarthExplorer remote sensing image | - | - | https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ |
| Row | - | row ID number of the USGS EarthExplorer remote sensing image | - | - | https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ |
| Study_Area | - | North East Germany= AgroScapeLabs Quillow (Brandenburg); South Germany=Freising (Bavaria) | - | - | - |
Table: Hare_Information
| Column name | Unit | Description | Instrument | Method | Reference |
| Hare | - | name of hare | - | - | - |
| Hare_ID | - | ID number of the deployed GPS tag | - | - | - |
| Study_Area | - | North East Germany= AgroScapeLabs Quillow (Brandenburg); South Germany=Freising (Bavaria) | - | - | - |
| Sex | - | sex of the animal | - | - | - |
| Weight | kg | Hare weight when caught and collared | - | - | - |
| Date_Deployment | yyyy/mm/dd | Date at which the hare was caught and collared | - | - | - |
| Date_of_last_Movement | yyyy/mm/dd | Date at which the last GPS fix was taken from the deployed collars | - | - | - |
| Deployment_Days | - | Number of days the collar was functioning and deployed on the animal | - | - | - |
| Valid_GPS_fixes | - | The amount of recorded GPS fixes within the deployment time | - | - | - |
Table: DataTableNDVI
| Column name | Unit | Description | Instrument | Method | Reference |
| Hare | - | name of hare | - | - | - |
| Hare_ID | - | ID number of the deployed GPS tag | - | - | - |
| Study_Area | - | North East Germany= AgroScapeLabs Quillow (Brandenburg); South Germany=Freising (Bavaria) | - | - | - |
| Image_Date | yyyy/mm/dd | Date at which the remote sensing image was taken | - | - | - |
| Julian_Day | - | Date at which the remote sensing image was taken (in Julian date format) | |||
| NDVIsd | - | Normalized Difference Vegetation Index: The standard deviation of the NDVI raster cells within each 10-day home range per hare | PC | calculation | Wegmann, M.;; Leutner, B.;; Dech, S.(2016): Remote Sensing and GIS for Ecologists. Pelagic Publishing |
| NDVImn | - | mean of the NDVI raster cells within each 10-day home range per hare | PC | calculation | - |
| Homge_Range_Size | ha | 10-day home range size per hare in hectar | R | statistical computing | https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/adehabitatHR/vignettes/adehabitatHR.pdf |
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