Wild canids and felids differ in their reliance on reused travel routeways

作者：William F. Fagan, Ananke Krishnan, Christen H. Fleming, Elizabeth Ferreira, Stephanie Chia, Anshuman Swain, Briana Abrahms, Chloe Bracis, Eliezer Gurarie, Thomas Mueller, Michael Noonan, Luiz Gustavo Rodrigues Oliveira‐Santos, Marlee A. Tucker, G. Paavai Anand, Qianru Liao, Suok‐Min Na, Steven Su, Daisy Liao, Varun Chilukuri, Shreyas Ramulu, Luisa Maria Diele‐Viegas, Michael R. Dougherty, David A. Illingworth, Dmitry Y. Alexandrov, Pâmela Castro Antunes, Fernanda Cavalcanti de Azevedo, Christina Barrett, Matías Taborda Barroso, Dominik M. Behr, Jerrold L. Belant, Steven E. Bellan, Dominique Berteaux, Dean E. Beyer, Laura R. Bidner, Jacqueline M. Bishop, J. David Blount, Andrew Butler, Andrew Carter, M. Carvalho, Michael J. Chamberlain, М. Д. Чистополова, Darren A. Clark, L. Mike Conner, Alayne Cotterill, Gabriele Cozzi, Bogdan Cristescu, Calum X. Cunningham, Emrah Çoban, Siobhan Darlington, Ísis Zanini das Candeias, Christopher S. DePerno, Jasja Dekker, Colleen T. Downs, N. A. Dronova, Marine Drouilly, Eblate Ernest Mjingo, Steve Ekwanga, Morgan Swingen, Mohammad S. Farhadinia, Adam T. Ford, Jacqueline L. Frair, Laurence G. Frank, John M. Fryxell, Todd K. Fuller, Robert Fyumagwa, Stefan Garthe, Wayne M. Getz, María Jesús Palacios González, TJ Gooliaff, Malte Götz, Rowena Hamer, Mario Haberfeld, Mark Hebblewhite, J. A. Hernandez-Blanco, Mathias Herrmann, Marco Heurich, Karen E. Hodges, AnnMarie Houser, Bruce D. Humphries, Miguel Ángel López López Iglesias, Lynne A. Isbell, David S. Jachowski, Craig R. Jackson, René Janssen, Kate E. Jenks, Jaime E. Jiménez, María Luisa S. P. Jorge, Rodrigo Silva Pinto Jorge, Fernando Jubete, Anjan Katna, Roland Kays, Andrew M. Kittle, Rebecca Klein, Raido Kont, M. Král, Josip Kusak, Johannes Lang, A. David M. Latham, Peter Leimgruber, Frederico Gemesio Lemos, Taal Levi, Caio F. M. Lima, Edson S. Lima, Fernando Lima, John D. C. Linnell, David W. Macdonald, Peter J. Mahoney, Peep Männil, Emmanuel H. Masenga, Jenny Mattisson, Roel May, Roy McBride, Robbie A. McDonald, J. Weldon McNutt, Karl V. Miller, Alexander Minaev, Dale G. Miquelle, Christopher E. Moorman, Ronaldo Gonçalves Morato, Ricardo Moreno, Guilherme Mourão, Bariushaa Munkhtsog, Bayaraa Munkhtsog, Sergey V. Naidenko, Teresa Nava, John Oddén, Morten Odden, Francisço Palomares, Brent R. Patterson, Bruce D. Patterson, Rogério Cunha de Paula, Agustín Paviolo, Yuri K. Petrunenko, А. Б. Пхитиков, Andrey D. Poyarkov, Laura R. Prugh, Kasim Rafiq, Emiliano Esterci Ramalho, Tharmalingam Ramesh, Nathan Ranc, Dustin H. Ranglack, Anya Avanthi Weerawardana Ratnayaka, David Roshier, Eivin Røskaft, В. В. Рожнов, Héctor Ruiz‐Villar, Joel Ruprecht, Gustaf Samelius, Philipp Schwemmer, Çağan H. Şekercioğlu, Laurel E. K. Serieys, Ivan V. Seryodkin, Olaf Simon, Nucharin Songsasen, П. А. Сорокин, Svetlana Soutryina, Patrick Stent, David C. Stoner, Jarryd P. Streicher, Jack Tatler, Kristine J. Teichman, Maria Thaker, Katerina V. Thompson, Jeffrey J. Thompson, Marcos Adriano Tortato, Manfred Trinzen, Leanne K. Van der Weyde, Abi Tamim Vanak, Marianela Velilla, Zea Walton, Tyler J. Wheeldon, Tomas Willebrand, Terrie M. Williams, Christopher C. Wilmers, Jared K. Wilson‐Aggarwal, Michael L. Wysong, A. A. Yachmennikova, Julie K. Young, Justin M. Calabrese · 发表于：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1073/pnas.2401042122 · 被引用次数：6 · 研究领域：Wildlife Ecology and Conservation、Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation、Human-Animal Interaction Studies

Diverse factors, including environmental features and cognitive processes, can drive animals' movements and space use, with far-reaching implications. For example, repeated use of individual-level travel routeways (directionally constrained but imperfectly aligned routes), which results in spatial concentration of activity, can shape encounter-based processes including predation, mate finding, and disease transmission. However, how much variation in routeway usage exists across species remains unknown. By analyzing GPS movement tracks for 1,239 range-resident mammalian carnivores-representing 16 canid and 18 felid species from six continents-we found strong evidence of a clade-level difference in species' reliance on repeatedly used travel routeways. Across the global dataset, tracked canids had a 15% (±7 CI) greater density of routeways within their home ranges than did felids, rising to 33% (±16 CI) greater in landscapes shared with tracked felids. Moreover, comparisons within species across landscapes revealed broadly similar home range routeway densities despite habitat differences. On average, canids also reused their travel routeways more intensively than did felids, with hunting strategies and spatial contexts also contributing to the intensity of routeway usage. Collectively, our results suggest that key aspects of carnivore routeway-usage have an evolutionary component. Striking interspecific and clade-level differences in carnivores' reliance on reused travel routew...