Remote sensing reveals the role of forage quality and quantity for summer habitat use in red deer
Red deer in summer habitats select forage quantity over quality with little difference between sexes. Females respond more strongly to human activities and thus prefer the Swiss National Park. Our results demonstrate the capability of satellite data to estimate forage quality and quantity separately for movement ecology studies, going beyond the exclusive use of conventional vegetation indices.
Authors
- Thomas Rempfler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7415-6052)
- Christian Rossi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9983-8898)
- Flurin Filli
- Hannes Jenny
- Pia Anderwald (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2594-2286)
- Klaus Hackländer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6774-435X)
- Claudio Signer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0438-1835)
- Wibke Peters (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7105-428X)
- Jan Schweizer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1931-0981)
- Sven Buchmann
Institutions
- Swiss National Park (CH)
- Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture (DE)
- ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences (CH)
- BOKU University (AT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Movement Ecology
- Published
- 2024-12-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-024-00521-6
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.38