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DOI	10.1002/ece3.8416
	Habitat selection by a predator of rodent pests is resilient to wildfire in a vineyard agroecosystem
	Huysman, Allison E.; Johnson, Matthew D.
通讯作者	Huysman, AE (corresponding author), Natl Zool Pk, Smithsonian Conservat Biol Inst, Migratory Bird Ctr, Washington, DC 20008 USA.
来源期刊	ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
ISSN	2045-7758
出版年	2021
英文摘要	Conservation of uncultivated habitats can increase the potential for ecosystem services in agroecosystems, but these lands are also susceptible to wildfires in the arid western United States. In Napa Valley, California, abundant rodent pests and an interest in integrated pest management have led wine producers to use nest boxes to attract Barn Owls (Tyto furcata) to winegrape vineyards. The viability of this practice as a method to control rodent pests depends heavily on the amount of hunting effort that Barn Owls expend in vineyards, which is known to be influenced by the amount of uncultivated land cover types surrounding the nest box. Wildfires burned nearly 60,000 ha of mainly urban and uncultivated lands surrounding Napa Valley in 2017, altering Barn Owl habitats. We compared GPS tracking data from 32 Barn Owls nesting in 24 individual nest boxes before and after the fires to analyze their hunting habitat selection. Owls with burned areas available to them after the fires had home ranges that shifted toward the fires, but selection was not strongly associated with burned areas. Though there was some spatial use of burned areas, selection of land cover types was similar for birds before and after the fires and in burned and unburned areas. The strongest selection was for areas closest to the nest box, and most recorded locations were in grassland, though selection indicated that owls used land cover types in proportion to their availability. Overall, habitat selection was resilient to changes caused by wildfires. These results are important for farmers who use nest boxes as a means of rodent control, which may be affected after dramatic disturbance events, especially as wildfires increase in the western United States.
英文关键词	Barn Owl ecosystem services resource utilization function vineyard wildfire
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:000729742300001
WOS关键词	OWLS TYTO-ALBA ; BARN OWLS ; RESOURCE SELECTION ; LAND-USE ; FIRE ; SUCCESS ; LANDSCAPE ; REDUCTION ; COMMUNITY ; SERVICES
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/2XILL650/374716
作者单位	[Huysman, Allison E.; Johnson, Matthew D.] Humboldt State Univ, Dept Wildlife, Arcata, CA 95521 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Huysman, Allison E.,Johnson, Matthew D.. Habitat selection by a predator of rodent pests is resilient to wildfire in a vineyard agroecosystem[J],2021.
APA	Huysman, Allison E.,&Johnson, Matthew D..(2021).Habitat selection by a predator of rodent pests is resilient to wildfire in a vineyard agroecosystem.ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION.
MLA	Huysman, Allison E.,et al."Habitat selection by a predator of rodent pests is resilient to wildfire in a vineyard agroecosystem".ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION (2021).