Egyptian vultures in the Middle East and East Africa_2012-2019-accessory

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dc.contributor.authorBuechley, Evan R.
dc.contributor.authorŞekercioğlu, Çağan H.
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-02T20:32:41Z
dc.date.available2019-12-02T20:32:41Z
dc.date.issued2019-12-02
dc.description.abstractVultures comprise the most endangered avian foraging guild (obligate scavengers) and their loss from ecosystems can trigger trophic cascades, mesopredator release, and human rabies epidemics, indicating their keystone species status. Vultures’ extremely large home ranges, which often cross international borders of countries that have differing laws and capacity for wildlife conservation, makes conserving them challenging. However, satellite-tracking data can be used to identify habitat preferences and critical sites to target conservation actions. We tracked 16 Egyptian Vultures, Neophron percnopterus, in the Middle East and East Africa. We used dynamic Brownian bridge movement models to calculate home ranges and core-use areas, and we analyzed habitat use in a resource selection framework. Combined summer and winter ranges (99% utilization distributions) of all birds covered 209,800 and 274,300 km2, respectively. However, the core-use areas (50% utilization distributions) in the summer and winter ranges, accounted for only 0.4–1.1% of this area (900 and 3100 km2, respectively). These core-use areas are where the home ranges of multiple individuals overlapped and/or where individuals spent a lot of time, such as feeding and roosting sites, and are places where conservation actions could focus. Resource selection models predicted Egyptian Vulture occurrence throughout little-studied parts of the species’ range in the Middle East and East Africa, and revealed strong selection for proximity to highways, power distribution lines, and towns. While providing roosts (e.g. power pylons) and food (e.g. garbage dumps), anthropogenic features may also function as ecological traps by increasing exposure to electrocution and dietary toxins.
dc.identifier.doidoi:10.5441/001/1.385gk270/1
dc.identifier.urihttps://datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.1007
dc.relation.ispartofdoi:10.5441/001/1.385gk270
dc.relation.isreferencedbydoi:10.1007/s10531-018-1538-6
dc.rightsCC0 1.0 Universalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
dc.subjectanimal movement
dc.subjectanimal tracking
dc.subjectArgos
dc.subjectavian migration
dc.subjectconservation biology
dc.subjectEgyptian vulture
dc.subjectGSM telemetry
dc.subjecthabitat selection
dc.subjectNeophron percnopterus
dc.subjectresource selection
dc.subjectsatellite telemetry
dc.titleEgyptian vultures in the Middle East and East Africa_2012-2019-accessory
dc.typeDataset
dspace.entity.typeData package
dwc.ScientificNameNeophron percnopterus
mdr.citation.BibTex
@misc{001/1_385gk270/1,
  title = {Egyptian vultures in the Middle East and East Africa_2012-2019-accessory},
  author = {Buechley, ER and Şekercioğlu, CH},
  year = {2019},
  URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.385gk270/1},
  doi = {doi:10.5441/001/1.385gk270/1},
  publisher = {Movebank data repository}
}
mdr.citation.CSE
Buechley ER, Şekercioğlu CH. 2019. Egyptian vultures in the Middle East and East Africa_2012-2019-accessory. Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.385gk270/1
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