Fig. 3: Recovery speed described in relation to dietary type, an individual’s sex, and the human Footprint index of the study area.
From: Mammals show faster recovery from capture and tagging in human-disturbed landscapes
A, B Recovery speed (of activity) described in relation to sex and the Human Footprint index (HFi), n = 1241. High recovery speed values indicate a fast recovery. High HFi values indicate a strong anthropogenic influence, and low values indicate a high degree of remoteness. The inset (A) shows the density plots of the sample size distribution for each dietary guild in regard to HFi. B Predictions are presented for values of the lower (12.37), median (18.68), and upper (25) quartiles of HFi. Insets here (B) present exemplary satellite imagery of sites with differing HFi; left to right: an area with little infrastructure and some habitat fragmentation [HFi: 10]; agricultural fields with small forest patches, road infrastructure, and some settlements [HFi: 17]; a more degraded landscape with a quarry and an adjacent solar park [HFi: 25] (ⓒLandsat / Copernicus, GoogleEarth 2020-202388). Landscapes with extreme HFi values (close to zero: representing pristine, undisturbed areas; close to 50: representing dense populated urban areas) were less present in the dataset and, as such, examples are not shown. C, D Recovery speed (of displacements) described in relation to body mass (C) and dietary type (D), n = 1014. Recovery speed describes the speed of change in activity or displacements as a percentage of the respective long-term mean on day one. Dots (A, C) represent calculated values. Dots (B, D) and the solid lines (A, C) represent mean modeled values, and bars (B, D) as well as the gray shaded area (A, C) are 95% confidence intervals. Note that the y-axis is sqrt-transformed.
