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Pet Cats Australia
| dc.contributor.author | Roetman, Philip | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tindle, Hayley | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-03-13T01:44:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-03-13T01:44:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-03-13 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Domestic cats (Felis catus) are a conservation concern because they kill billions of native prey each year, but without spatial context the ecological importance of pets as predators remains uncertain. We worked with citizen scientists to track 925 pet cats from six countries, finding remarkably small home ranges (3.6 ± 5.6 ha). Only three cats ranged > 1 km^2 and we found no relationship between home range size and the presence of larger native predators (i.e. coyotes, Canis latrans). Most (75%) cats used primarily (90%) disturbed habitats. Owners reported that their pets killed an average of 3.5 prey items/month, leading to an estimated ecological impact per cat of 14.2‐38.9 prey ha^−1 yr^−1. This is similar or higher than the per‐animal ecological impact of wild carnivores but the effect is amplified by the high density of cats in neighborhoods. As a result, pet cats around the world have an ecological impact greater than native predators but concentrated within ~100 m of their homes. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | doi:10.5441/001/1.289p5s77/1 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.877 | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | doi:10.5441/001/1.289p5s77 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedby | doi:10.1111/acv.12563 | |
| dc.rights | CC0 1.0 Universal | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ | |
| dc.subject | animal movement | |
| dc.subject | animal tracking | |
| dc.subject | citizen science | |
| dc.subject | domestic cats | |
| dc.subject | Felis catus | |
| dc.subject | GPS logger | |
| dc.subject | predation | |
| dc.subject | urban ecology | |
| dc.title | Pet Cats Australia | |
| dc.type | Dataset | |
| dspace.entity.type | Data package | |
| dwc.ScientificName | Felis catus | |
| mdr.citation.BibTex | @misc{001/1_289p5s77/1,
title = {Pet Cats Australia},
author = {Roetman, P and Tindle, H},
year = {2020},
URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.289p5s77/1},
doi = {doi:10.5441/001/1.289p5s77/1},
publisher = {Movebank data repository}
}
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| mdr.citation.CSE | Roetman P, Tindle H. 2020. Pet Cats Australia. Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.289p5s77/1 | |
| mdr.citation.RIS | TY - DATA ID - doi:10.5441/001/1.289p5s77/1 T1 - Pet Cats Australia AU - Roetman, Philip AU - Tindle, Hayley Y1 - 2020/03/13 KW - animal movement KW - animal tracking KW - citizen science KW - domestic cats KW - Felis catus KW - GPS logger KW - predation KW - urban ecology KW - Felis catus PB - Movebank data repository UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.289p5s77/1 DO - doi:10.5441/001/1.289p5s77/1 ER - | |