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Understanding home range behaviour and resource selection of invasive common brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) in urban environments

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Author	Adams, A. L. Recio, M. R. Robertson, B. C. Dickinson, K. J. M. Heezik, Y.
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	Because invasive species are often opportunistic and behaviourally flexible, they tend to be successful in urban landscapes, where they may use space differently than in their more traditional habitats. Consequently, control strategies developed for invasive pest species in non-urban areas may not succeed in an urban context. Using GPS tracking, we examined habitat use by an invasive pest, the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) in residential New Zealand habitats; these habitats comprise a large proportion of the urban landscape and are currently not targeted for pest control. We predicted that home ranges of possums in residential areas would be larger than those in non-urban habitats due to lower densities of their primary food resource, plant material; that possums would prefer forest fragment habitat; and that they would avoid roads due to the mortality risk. Home range sizes estimated using mechanistic Brownian bridges and 100 % minimum convex polygons were smaller or similar in size to those recorded in rural and forest habitats. Resource utilization functions and the regression of utilization distribution probabilities against environmental variables showed that possums selected forest fragments primarily, followed by residential habitat characterised by large gardens with a degree of vegetative structural complexity. Roads were not avoided. Control operations should expand their scope to include residential areas containing mature, diverse vegetation rather than only focussing on forest fragments, a strategy that ignores biodiversity values in residential habitats, and is likely to be unsuccessful due to reinvasion potential from neighbouring residential areas.
Starting Page	1791
Ending Page	1804
Page Count	14
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13873547
Journal	Biological Invasions
Volume Number	16
Issue Number	9
e-ISSN	15731464
Language	English
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Publisher Date	2013-12-20
Publisher Place	Cham
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Brownian bridges BBMM Home range Mechanistic modelling Resource selection Resource utilization function Trichosurus vulpecula Ecology Freshwater & Marine Ecology Plant Sciences Developmental Biology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Ecology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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