Swamp wallabies on Phillips Island Australia-reference-data

Fischer M, Di Stefano J, Gras P, Kramer-Schadt S, Sutherland DR, Coulson G, Stillfried M. 2020. Swamp wallabies on Phillips Island Australia-reference-data. Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.6ss053tn/2

Abstract

Animals access resources such as food and shelter, and acquiring these resources has varying risks and benefits, depending on the suitability of the landscape. Some animals change their patterns of resource selection in space and time to optimize the trade‐off between risks and benefits. We examine the circadian variation in resource selection of swamp wallabies (Wallabia bicolor) within a human‐modified landscape, an environment of varying suitability. We used GPS data from 48 swamp wallabies to compare the use of landscape features such as woodland and scrub, housing estates, farmland, coastal areas, wetlands, waterbodies, and roads to their availability using generalized linear mixed models. We investigated which features were selected by wallabies and determined whether the distance to different landscape features changed, depending on the time of the day. During the day, wallabies were more likely to be found within or near natural landscape features such as woodlands and scrub, wetlands, and coastal vegetation, while avoiding landscape features that may be perceived as more risky (roads, housing, waterbodies, and farmland), but those features were selected more at night. Finally, we mapped our results to predict habitat suitability for swamp wallabies in human‐modified landscapes. We showed that wallabies living in a human‐modified landscape selected different landscape features during day or night. Changing circadian patterns of resource selection might enhance the persistence of species in landscapes where resources are fragmented and disturbed.

Keywords

animal movement,animal tracking,Australia,GSM telemetry,habitat selection,human disturbance,resource selection,swamp wallaby,Wallabia bicolor

DOIs of related Publications

https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5283

URI

https://datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.896

BibTex

@misc{001/1_6ss053tn/2,
  title = {Swamp wallabies on Phillips Island Australia-reference-data},
  author = {Fischer, M and Di, Stefano, J and Gras, P and Kramer-Schadt, S and Sutherland, DR and Coulson, G and Stillfried, M},
  year = {2020},
  URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.6ss053tn/2},
  doi = {doi:10.5441/001/1.6ss053tn/2},
  publisher = {Movebank data repository}
}

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T1  - Swamp wallabies on Phillips Island Australia-reference-data
AU  - Fischer, Manuela
AU  - Di Stefano, Julian
AU  - Gras, Pierre
AU  - Kramer-Schadt, Stephanie
AU  - Sutherland, Duncan R.
AU  - Coulson, Graeme
AU  - Stillfried, Milena
Y1  - 2020/06/26
KW  - animal movement
KW  - animal tracking
KW  - Australia
KW  - GSM telemetry
KW  - habitat selection
KW  - human disturbance
KW  - resource selection
KW  - swamp wallaby
KW  - Wallabia bicolor
KW  - Wallabia bicolor
PB  - Movebank data repository
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.6ss053tn/2
DO  - doi:10.5441/001/1.6ss053tn/2
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