Data from: Ecological impact of inside/outside house cats around a suburban nature preserve

Kays, Roland; DeWan, Amielle A.

Data from: Ecological impact of inside/outside house cats around a suburban nature preserve

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Date

2020-07-02

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.s6t84pb5

Authors

Kays, Roland

DeWan, Amielle A.

Citation

Kays R, DeWan AA. 2020. Data from: Ecological impact of inside/outside house cats around a suburban nature preserve. Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.s6t84pb5

Abstract

While subsidised populations of feral cats are known to impact their prey populations, little is known about the ecological impact of inside/outside hunting cats (IOHC). We studied IOHC around a suburban nature preserve. Mail surveys indicated an average of 0.275 IOHC/house, leading to a regional density estimate of 0.32 IOHC/ha. A geographical model of cat density was created based on local house density and distance from forest/neighbourhood edge. IOHC hunted mostly small mammals, averaging 1.67 prey brought home/cat/month and a kill rate of 13%. Predation rates based on kills brought home was lower than the estimate from observing hunting cats (5.54 kills/cat/month). IOHC spent most outside time in their or their immediate neighbours' garden/yard, or in the nearby forest edge; 80% of observed hunts occurred in a garden/yard or in the first 10 m of forest. Radio‐tracked IOHC averaged 0.24 ha in home‐range size (95% minimum convex polygon (MCP)) and rarely entered forest. Confirming this, scent stations detected cats more often near the edge and more cats were detected in smaller forest fragments. There was no relationship between the number of cats detected in an area and the local small mammal abundance or rodent seed predation rates. Cold weather and healthy cat predator populations are speculated to minimise the ecological impact of IOHC on this area.

Keywords

Felis catus,animal tracking,carnivores,conservation biology,Felis catus,home range,domestic cats,radio telemetry

Taxa

Taxon

Felis catus

Domestic Cat

Sensors

Sensor

Radio Transmitter

DOIs of related Publications

https://doi.org/10.1017/S1367943004001489

URI

https://datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.1115

BibTex

@misc{001/1_s6t84pb5,
  title = {Data from: Ecological impact of inside/outside house cats around a suburban nature preserve},
  author = {Kays, R and DeWan, AA},
  year = {2020},
  URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.s6t84pb5},
  doi = {doi:10.5441/001/1.s6t84pb5},
  publisher = {Movebank data repository}
}

RIS

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AU  - DeWan, Amielle A.
Y1  - 2020/07/02
KW  - Felis catus
KW  - animal movement
KW  - animal tracking
KW  - carnivores
KW  - conservation biology
KW  - Felis catus
KW  - home range
KW  - domestic cats
KW  - radio telemetry
KW  - Felis catus
PB  - Movebank data repository
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.s6t84pb5
DO  - doi:10.5441/001/1.s6t84pb5
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