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DOI	10.1002/ece3.6174
	Shelter availability and human attitudes as drivers of rock hyrax (Procavia capensis) expansion along a rural-urban gradient
	Ben-Moshe, Noam; Iwamura, Takuya
通讯作者	Ben-Moshe, Noam
来源期刊	ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
ISSN	2045-7758
出版年	2020
卷号	10 期号:9 页码:4044-4065
英文摘要	While anthropogenic land-use changes threaten wildlife globally, some species take advantage of such changes and disperse into urban areas. The wildlife in urban areas often promotes conflicts with humans, notably when the animals are associated with the spread of zoonotic diseases. In Israel, current urban invasion of rock hyraxes (Procavia capensis) draws public attention, since the species is a reservoir host of cutaneous leishmaniasis, a serious skin disease. The rock hyrax, however, has seldom been studied in densely populated areas, and the drivers for its urban expansion, as well as its abilities to live and spread in core urban areas, are relatively unknown. Here, we explore the rock hyrax expansion to urban areas process by examining the availability, characteristics and use of shelter along an urban gradient. Our findings suggest that a series of factors determines shelter availability and quality for the rock hyrax, which facilitates its dispersion across the urban gradient. We found that rock hyraxes from the Judean Desert expand to the peri-urban region of Jerusalem by colonizing new rocky shelters formed as by-products of urban development. With their populations reaching extreme densities in this area and saturating the available shelters, there is some spill over to the adjacent core urban areas where they colonize littered sites, which are made available due to the local socio-economic conditions and cultural norms of waste disposal and illegal placement of temporary structures. Our work emphasizes the significance of the urban gradient approach for studying the mechanisms promoting wildlife expansion to cities. Our findings suggest that changes in shelter availability and quality due to urban development, and cultural norms promote shifts of the hyrax population by pushing from the already established areas and pulling into new environment across the urban gradient.
英文关键词	invasion biology Leishmania tropica urban wildlife zoonotic diseases
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	Israel
开放获取类型	Green Published, gold
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000525765700001
WOS关键词	WILDLIFE ; BIODIVERSITY ; BEHAVIOR ; AREAS ; URBANIZATION ; TEMPERATURE ; MANAGEMENT ; PREDATION ; ECOLOGY ; DISEASE
WOS类目	Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/314377
作者单位	Tel Aviv Univ, Sch Zool, IL-69989 Tel Aviv, Israel
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ben-Moshe, Noam,Iwamura, Takuya. Shelter availability and human attitudes as drivers of rock hyrax (Procavia capensis) expansion along a rural-urban gradient[J],2020,10(9):4044-4065.
APA	Ben-Moshe, Noam,&Iwamura, Takuya.(2020).Shelter availability and human attitudes as drivers of rock hyrax (Procavia capensis) expansion along a rural-urban gradient.ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION,10(9),4044-4065.
MLA	Ben-Moshe, Noam,et al."Shelter availability and human attitudes as drivers of rock hyrax (Procavia capensis) expansion along a rural-urban gradient".ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 10.9(2020):4044-4065.