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Behavioural ecology and conservation of the Egyptian Vulture in human-dominated landscapes: insights from long-term monitoring and movement ecology

327 p.

Idioma: English
Publicación: 2022
Materia:
zoology
animal behaviour
animal ecology
Acceso electrónico: http://hdl.handle.net/10810/56144
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spelling addi-10810-561442022-04-01T01:23:45Zcom_10810_12140Tesis Doctoralescom_10810_91INVESTIGACIÓNcol_10810_12145TD-Ciencias Behavioural ecology and conservation of the Egyptian Vulture in human-dominated landscapes: insights from long-term monitoring and movement ecology Morant Echevarria, Jon Zuberogoitia Arroyo, Iñigo López López, Pascual zoology animal behaviour animal ecology 327 p. Human activities transformed virtually all landscapes worldwide to fulfil their basic needs (e.g., resource extraction, agriculture or leisure activities). By doing so, they also affect species inhabiting these human-dominated landscapes. Due to their historical link to human activities, apex predators, especially vultures, are especially vulnerable to human-induced behavioural alterations and have undergone population declines worldwide. Therefore, finding a solution that reconciles vulture conservation and human activities in such landscapes is necessary. By using a set of behavioural indicators (e.g., breeding, occupancy/detectability and space use) from long-term monitoring and movement ecology, this thesis aims to build links between behaviour and conservation of Egyptian vulture Neophron percnopterus in human-dominated landscapes. The current dissertation shows that the species invests similar effort in parental care and that incubation and hatching are important tipping points during the breeding season (Chapter 1). This information could be, in turn, used to design cost-effective monitoring while accounting for imperfect detection and breeding phenology and other environmental variables that could help to adapt monitoring programs to different available budgets (Chapter 2). Similarly, the knowledge of breeding behaviour of the species could be used to infer the impact of habitat alterations on species nest occupancy and reproduction patterns and to improve conservation programs (Chapter 3), and test whether management programs and collaboration networks resulted effective in reducing the synergistic effect of various human disturbances (Chapter 4). Finally, it poses an advance in the understanding of how certain human activities that provide continuous and predictable food pulses, such as farming, could alter species space use and favour residency in partial migratory species (Chapter 5), and that human-driven changes in migratory behaviour could even have consequences on fitness and energy use of different migratory phenotypes (Chapter 6). Overall, this work demonstrates the utility of increasing vulture behaviour knowledge to ascertain the effects of human activities on the species and find coherent conservation solutions that favour its persistence and promote vulture-human coexistence in anthropogenic landscapes. 2022-03-31T08:27:42Z 2022-03-31T08:27:42Z 2022-03-25 2022-03-25 info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis http://hdl.handle.net/10810/56144 572922 20442 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/es/ Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 3.0 España (cc) 2022 Jon Morant Echevarria (cc by-nc-sa 4.0)
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topic zoology
animal behaviour
animal ecology
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animal behaviour
animal ecology
Morant Echevarria, Jon
Behavioural ecology and conservation of the Egyptian Vulture in human-dominated landscapes: insights from long-term monitoring and movement ecology
description 327 p.
author_additional Zuberogoitia Arroyo, Iñigo
author Morant Echevarria, Jon
title Behavioural ecology and conservation of the Egyptian Vulture in human-dominated landscapes: insights from long-term monitoring and movement ecology
title_short Behavioural ecology and conservation of the Egyptian Vulture in human-dominated landscapes: insights from long-term monitoring and movement ecology
title_full Behavioural ecology and conservation of the Egyptian Vulture in human-dominated landscapes: insights from long-term monitoring and movement ecology
title_fullStr Behavioural ecology and conservation of the Egyptian Vulture in human-dominated landscapes: insights from long-term monitoring and movement ecology
title_full_unstemmed Behavioural ecology and conservation of the Egyptian Vulture in human-dominated landscapes: insights from long-term monitoring and movement ecology
title_sort behavioural ecology and conservation of the egyptian vulture in human-dominated landscapes: insights from long-term monitoring and movement ecology
publishDate 2022
url http://hdl.handle.net/10810/56144
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