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SUBMITTER: Mills KL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7673783 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mills Kirby L KL Harris Nyeema C NC
eLife 20201118
Wildlife respond to human presence by adjusting their temporal niche, possibly modifying encounter rates among species and trophic dynamics that structure communities. We assessed wildlife diel activity responses to human presence and consequential changes in predator-prey overlap using 11,111 detections of 3 large carnivores and 11 ungulates across 21,430 camera trap-nights in West Africa. Over two-thirds of species exhibited diel responses to mainly diurnal human presence, with ungulate noctur ...[more]