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Using the movement patterns of reintroduced animals to improve reintroduction success

原文链接：万方

• 作者：

  Oded BERGER-TAL,David SALTZ

• 摘要：

  Despite?their?importance?to?conservation,?reintroductions?are?still?a?risky?endeavor?and?tend?to?fail,?highlighting?the?need?for?more?efficient?post-release?monitoring?techniques.?Reintroduced?animals?are?released?into?unfamiliar?novel?environ?ments?and?must?explore?their?surroundings?to?gain?knowledge?in?order?to?survive.?According?to?theory,?knowledge?gain?should?be?followed?by?subsequent?changes?to?the?animal's?movement?behavior,?making?movement?behavior?an?excellent?indicator?of?reintroduction?progress.?We?aim?to?conceptually?describe?a?logical?process?that?will?enable?the?inclusion?of?behavior?(in?particular,?movement?behavior)?in?management?decision-making?post-reintroductions,?and?to?do?so,?we?provide?four?basic?components?that?a?manager?should?look?for?in?the?behaviors?of?released?animals.?The?suggested?components?are?release-site?fidelity,?recurring?locations,?proximity?to?other?individuals,?and?individual?variation?in?movement?behavior.?These?components?are?by?no?means?the?only?possible?ones?available?to?a?manager,?but?they?provide?an?efficient?tool?to?understanding?animals'?decision-making?based?on?ecological?theory;?namely,?the?exploration-exploitation?trade-off?that?released?animals?go?through,?and?which?underlies?their?behavior.?We?demonstrate?our?conceptual?approach?using?data?from?two?ungulate?species?reintroduced?in?Israel:?the?Persian?fallow?deer?Dama?mesopotamica?and?the?Arabian?oryx?Oryx?leucoryx?[Current?Zoology?60?(4):?515-526,?2014]?.

• 关键词：

  有蹄类动物 再引入 运动模式 动作行为 管理决策 监测技术 环境学习 运动行为

• 作者单位：

  Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, & Applied Animal Ecology Division, Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego Zoo Global, CA, USA%Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

• 基金项目：

  Acknowledgments O.B-T is supported by a Fulbright post-doctoral fellowship from the United States - Israel Educational Foundation. This study was funded by an Israel Science Foundation (ISF) grant1397/10and by the Israel Nature and Park Authority. We thank R. King and A. Dolev for their help during various phases of the project. This is publication number844of the Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology.

• 来源期刊：

  动物学报(英文版)

• 年，卷(期)：

  2014004