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DOI	10.3389/fevo.2021.751515
	COVID-19 Restrictions in a Nature Reserve Reveal the Costs of Human Presence for the Threatened Nubian Ibex (Capra nubiana)
	Zukerman, Yuval; Sigal, Zehava; Berger-Tal, Oded
通讯作者	Zukerman, Y (corresponding author), Ben Gur Univ Negev, Albert Katz Int Sch Desert Stud, Jacob Blaustein Inst Desert Res, Beer Sheva, Israel.
来源期刊	FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
ISSN	2296-701X
出版年	2021
卷号	9
英文摘要	The increasing pressure of ecotourism on wildlife in their natural habitats leads many wild animals to alter their behaviors. The restrictions issued in many places due to COVID-19 provide a rare opportunity to examine wildlife behavior in nature reserves with reduced human presence, and to reveal the impact of human visitation on the behaviors and fitness of local wildlife species. In 2019 and 2020 we placed trail cameras next to two natural springs in the Israeli Negev Desert, Ein-Avdat and Ein-Shaviv, located 9 km apart. Both sites serve as the main water source for local Nubian ibex (Capra nubiana) populations, but Ein-Avdat is situated within a popular national park into which visitors' entrance was restricted due to COVID-19 regulations in 2020, while Ein-Shaviv is more remote and thus attracts only few visitors regardless of COVID-19 regulations. Our study revealed that during 2020, ibex in Ein-Avdat arrived to drink earlier in the day and the population's Female:Kids ratio more than doubled. These changes were not observed in Ein-Shaviv. We found that the daily number of visitors in Ein-Avdat affected the arrival time of ibex to the water pool. We conclude that the reduced number of visitors to Ein-Avdat in 2020 compared to 2019 may have allowed ibex to arrive in preferred hours, and may have contributed to the increased kid-to-females ratio. Our study shows that behavioral adaptions to human visitation in nature reserves might carry a high fitness cost.
英文关键词	ecotourism COVID-19 behavioral flexibility animal behavior wildlife management
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000730750700001
WOS关键词	NATURE-BASED TOURISM ; HUMAN DISTURBANCE ; CONSERVATION ; HABITUATION ; SURVIVAL ; WILDLIFE ; RECREATION ; LANDSCAPE ; VIGILANCE ; RESPONSES
WOS类目	Ecology
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/374104
作者单位	[Zukerman, Yuval] Ben Gur Univ Negev, Albert Katz Int Sch Desert Stud, Jacob Blaustein Inst Desert Res, Beer Sheva, Israel; [Sigal, Zehava] Israeli Nat & Parks Author, Beer Sheva, Israel; [Berger-Tal, Oded] Ben Gur Univ Negev, Jacob Blaustein Inst Desert Res, Mitrani Dept Desert Ecol, Beer Sheva, Israel
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zukerman, Yuval,Sigal, Zehava,Berger-Tal, Oded. COVID-19 Restrictions in a Nature Reserve Reveal the Costs of Human Presence for the Threatened Nubian Ibex (Capra nubiana)[J],2021,9.
APA	Zukerman, Yuval,Sigal, Zehava,&Berger-Tal, Oded.(2021).COVID-19 Restrictions in a Nature Reserve Reveal the Costs of Human Presence for the Threatened Nubian Ibex (Capra nubiana).FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION,9.
MLA	Zukerman, Yuval,et al."COVID-19 Restrictions in a Nature Reserve Reveal the Costs of Human Presence for the Threatened Nubian Ibex (Capra nubiana)".FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 9(2021).