Cited by 110Wildlife Ecology and ConservationRangeland and Wildlife ManagementAnimal Ecology and Behavior Studies

Environmental determinants of habitat and kill site selection in a large carnivore: scale matters

Davidson, Zeke, Valeix, Marion, Loveridge, Andrew J., Hunt, Jane E., Johnson, Paul J., Madzikanda, Hillary, Macdonald, David W.·2012·Journal of Mammalogy

Abstract

Scale influences habitat selection. We used data from 30 global positioning system radiocollared lions (Panthera leo) collected between 2003 and 2007 in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, and information from 227 locations where lions had made kills, to assess how lions select habitat at 3rd-order habitat selection (selection of habitats within home ranges) and 4th-order habitat selection (selection of kill sites within the habitats used). Within home range, lions preferentially selected bushed grasslands and sites close to water holes, which are both characterized by high prey abundance. However, lions preferentially killed in thickets, where prey abundance was not the highest but where prey catchability may be higher because of dense vegetation. Our results support the suggestion that there are different determinants of habitat selection at different scales with prey abundance being the main driver of habitat selection at 3rd-order and prey catchability the main driver at 4rth-order habitat selection.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1644/10-mamm-a-424.1

Cites

59 of 59 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Davidson, Z., Valeix, M., Loveridge, A. J., Hunt, J. E., Johnson, P. J., Madzikanda, H., & Macdonald, D. W.
Affiliations
  • University of Oxford (GB)
  • Lyon 1 Université (FR)
Corresponding author
Davidson, Zeke
Venue
Journal of Mammalogy
Published
2012-06-28
Volume
93
Issue
3
Pages
677-685
ISSN
  • 0022-2372 (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-1542
OpenAlex
W2142775768
Cited by
110
References
59
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 1
FWCI
4.25
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Journal of Mammalogy (publishedVersion)
  • BioOne Complete (BioOne) (submittedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Eppley Foundation for Research
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
Keywords
habitat selection, African lion, lion, prey abundance, waterholes, thicket, home range, large carnivores, Hwange National Park

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review