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Summary of species detected at eight camera sites in El Dorado National Forest, California, in years 2013-2014.
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Tourist activity in natural areas may impact species' behavior and ecology as well as predator-prey dynamics. Although previous research has demonstrated effects of human disturbance on wildlife communities, only a limited number of studies have focused on small mammals and coyote predator-prey systems. To generate an overview of human impacts on t...
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... Despite a long coevolution of temporal partitioning between predator and prey (Wu et al 2018), interactions with human disturbance can create complex activity patterns in mammals. A study from the US found that an overarching drive to temporally avoid human activities led rodents and lagomorphs to avoid their coyote predator less in human-disturbed areas (Caldwell and Klip, 2022). Red foxes in Spain, on the other hand, avoided human diel activity patterns more than matching those of their lagomorph prey (Díaz-Ruiz et al 2016). ...
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