Fabiola Iannarilli
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Fabiola Iannarilli
@fa-bio-la.bsky.social
wildlife biologist | quantitative ecologist | studying animal distribution and behavior using camera trap data | Marie Curie Fellow Postdoc @MPI_AnimalBehavior, previously @Yale | PhD @UMN 🇮🇹🇳🇴🇺🇸🇩🇪 🐺🦊🐱🐕🐿🐁
Overall, this work confirms that wildlife's response to the presence of humans and domestic species might not be universally negative; it might vary, instead, depending on the context.
December 2, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Although we found no negative association between pine martens and humans/cats, additional studies are needed. Occurrence might be a metric too coarse to reveal a negative effect on abundance, fitness, etc. and these findings might be limited to particular conditions occurring in Elba.
December 2, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Opposite activity patterns (mostly diurnal for humans, mostly nocturnal for pine martens) might facilitate the co-existence between humans and pine martens. Temporal segregation might not be the mechanism that allows the co-existence of pine martens and cats as they have similar activity patterns.
December 2, 2024 at 3:57 PM
We found that pine marten had high probability of occurring (>0.63) across all vegetation types and elevations sampled. Surprisingly, we found no association between the occurrence of pine martens and the other two species, despite the pervasive presence of both humans and cats throughout the area.
December 2, 2024 at 3:57 PM
On Elba, pine martens are the only wild carnivore present and domestic cats could act as their main competitors. Also, due to tourism, the number of people in the island increases drastically during the summer. Thus, Elba is a great place to explore pine martens’ response to humans and cats.
December 2, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Thank you
November 27, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Oh, I see. Very interesting idea. It is definitely worth doing some tests with simulated data. We have code for creating those :)
November 21, 2024 at 11:48 AM