Urban conservation hotspots: Predation release allows the grassland-specialist burrowing owl to perform better in the city

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Rebolo, Natalia; Tella, José L.; Carrete, Martina
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2017
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Although habitat transformation is one of the main causes of biodiversity loss, there are many examples of species successfully occupying and even proliferating in highly human-modified habitats such are the cities. Thus, there is an increasing interest in understanding the drivers favoring urban life for some species. Here, we show how the low richness and abundance of predators in urban areas may explain changes in the habitat selection pattern of a grassland specialist species, the burrowing owl Athene cunicularia, toward urban habitats. Predation release improves the demographic parameters of urban individuals, thus favoring an increment in the breeding density of the species in urban areas that accounts for the apparent positive selection of this habitat in detriment of the more natural ones that are avoided. These results suggest that traditional habitat selection analyses do not necessarily describe habitat choice decisions actively taken by individuals but differences in their demographic prospects. Moreover, they also highlight that cites, as predator-free refuges, can become key conservation hotspots for some species dependent on threatened habitats such as the temperate grasslands of South America.
Fil: Rebolo, Natalia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución de Buenos Aires. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Centro Regional Universidad Bariloche. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente; Argentina
Fil: Tella, José L.. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; España
Fil: Carrete, Martina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; España. Universidad Pablo de Olavide; España
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Urban conservation hotspots: Predation release allows the grassland-specialist burrowing owl to perform better in the city
title Urban conservation hotspots: Predation release allows the grassland-specialist burrowing owl to perform better in the city
spellingShingle Urban conservation hotspots: Predation release allows the grassland-specialist burrowing owl to perform better in the city
Rebolo, Natalia
Biodiversity
Conservation biology
Urban ecology
title_short Urban conservation hotspots: Predation release allows the grassland-specialist burrowing owl to perform better in the city
title_full Urban conservation hotspots: Predation release allows the grassland-specialist burrowing owl to perform better in the city
title_fullStr Urban conservation hotspots: Predation release allows the grassland-specialist burrowing owl to perform better in the city
title_full_unstemmed Urban conservation hotspots: Predation release allows the grassland-specialist burrowing owl to perform better in the city
title_sort Urban conservation hotspots: Predation release allows the grassland-specialist burrowing owl to perform better in the city
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Rebolo, Natalia
Tella, José L.
Carrete, Martina
author Rebolo, Natalia
author_facet Rebolo, Natalia
Tella, José L.
Carrete, Martina
author_role author
author2 Tella, José L.
Carrete, Martina
author2_role author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Biodiversity
Conservation biology
Urban ecology
topic Biodiversity
Conservation biology
Urban ecology
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Although habitat transformation is one of the main causes of biodiversity loss, there are many examples of species successfully occupying and even proliferating in highly human-modified habitats such are the cities. Thus, there is an increasing interest in understanding the drivers favoring urban life for some species. Here, we show how the low richness and abundance of predators in urban areas may explain changes in the habitat selection pattern of a grassland specialist species, the burrowing owl Athene cunicularia, toward urban habitats. Predation release improves the demographic parameters of urban individuals, thus favoring an increment in the breeding density of the species in urban areas that accounts for the apparent positive selection of this habitat in detriment of the more natural ones that are avoided. These results suggest that traditional habitat selection analyses do not necessarily describe habitat choice decisions actively taken by individuals but differences in their demographic prospects. Moreover, they also highlight that cites, as predator-free refuges, can become key conservation hotspots for some species dependent on threatened habitats such as the temperate grasslands of South America.
Fil: Rebolo, Natalia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución de Buenos Aires. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Centro Regional Universidad Bariloche. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente; Argentina
Fil: Tella, José L.. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; España
Fil: Carrete, Martina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; España. Universidad Pablo de Olavide; España
description Although habitat transformation is one of the main causes of biodiversity loss, there are many examples of species successfully occupying and even proliferating in highly human-modified habitats such are the cities. Thus, there is an increasing interest in understanding the drivers favoring urban life for some species. Here, we show how the low richness and abundance of predators in urban areas may explain changes in the habitat selection pattern of a grassland specialist species, the burrowing owl Athene cunicularia, toward urban habitats. Predation release improves the demographic parameters of urban individuals, thus favoring an increment in the breeding density of the species in urban areas that accounts for the apparent positive selection of this habitat in detriment of the more natural ones that are avoided. These results suggest that traditional habitat selection analyses do not necessarily describe habitat choice decisions actively taken by individuals but differences in their demographic prospects. Moreover, they also highlight that cites, as predator-free refuges, can become key conservation hotspots for some species dependent on threatened habitats such as the temperate grasslands of South America.
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