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The effects of human development, environmental factors, and a major highway on mammalian community composition in the Wasatch Mountains of northern Utah, USA

dc.contributor.coauthorBarnick, K.A.
dc.contributor.coauthorGreen, A.M.
dc.contributor.coauthorPendergast, M.E.
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics
dc.contributor.kuauthorŞekercioğlu, Çağan Hakkı
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Sciences
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-09T12:00:32Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractHuman development and roads threaten wildlife through distinct mechanisms and understanding the influence of these elements can better inform mitigation and conservation strategies. We used camera traps to quantify the effects of major roads, environmental factors, and human development on the mammalian community composition between sites north and south of a major interstate highway in northern Utah, USA. We found no significant differences in species richness nor community similarity across the north-south divide of the highway. Through Bayesian hierarchical modeling, we compared the effects of the distance to the highway, housing and human population density, normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), and the human footprint index to changes in mammalian community composition and species-specific habitat usage. Community occupancy response, similarity, and species richness were negatively affected by increased housing and human population densities and positively affected by increased NDVI and decreased human footprint, whereas their response to the highway was more inconclusive. We conclude that mammalian community composition in our study area is influenced by both environmental conditions and human development while the effect of the highway was more nuanced, possibly due to the presence of a newly constructed wildlife overpass. Taken together, the lack of differences in species richness or community composition across the highway suggests that it may not currently exacerbate the effects of other anthropogenic sources of habitat fragmentation and highlights the need for additional research into human-wildlife conflict mitigation strategies.
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dc.description.issue7
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dc.description.publisherscopeInternational
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dc.description.versionPublisher version
dc.description.volume4
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/csp2.12708
dc.identifier.eissn2578-4854
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dc.identifier.filenameinventorynoIR03688
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/947
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dc.keywordsBayesian occupancy modeling
dc.keywordsCamera traps
dc.keywordsCommunity ecology
dc.keywordsHabitat connectivity
dc.keywordsHabitat fragmentation
dc.keywordsUrban ecology
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWiley
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dc.relation.ispartofConservation Science and Practice
dc.relation.urihttp://cdm21054.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/IR/id/10548
dc.subjectBiodiversity and conservation
dc.titleThe effects of human development, environmental factors, and a major highway on mammalian community composition in the Wasatch Mountains of northern Utah, USA
dc.typeJournal Article
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