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Habitat selection by free-roaming domestic dogs in rabies endemic countries in rural and urban settings
Domestic dogs can affect human health through bites and pathogen transmission, particularly in resource-poor countries where dogs, including owned ones, predominantly roam freely. Habitat and resource selection analysis methods are commonplace in wildlife studies but have not been used to investigat...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9719531/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36463285 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25038-z |
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author | Cunha Silva, Laura Friker, Brian Warembourg, Charlotte Kanankege, Kaushi Wera, Ewaldus Berger-González, Monica Alvarez, Danilo Dürr, Salome |
author_facet | Cunha Silva, Laura Friker, Brian Warembourg, Charlotte Kanankege, Kaushi Wera, Ewaldus Berger-González, Monica Alvarez, Danilo Dürr, Salome |
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description | Domestic dogs can affect human health through bites and pathogen transmission, particularly in resource-poor countries where dogs, including owned ones, predominantly roam freely. Habitat and resource selection analysis methods are commonplace in wildlife studies but have not been used to investigate the environmental resource use of free-roaming domestic dogs (FRDD). The present study implements GPS devices to investigate habitat selection by FRDD from an urban site and a rural site in Indonesia, and one urban and two rural sites in Guatemala (N = 321 dogs). Spatial mixed effects logistic regression models, accounting for heterogeneous distribution of the resources, showed that patterns of habitat selection by FRDD were similar across study sites. The most preferred resources were anthropogenic, being buildings and roads, which implies selection for human proximity. Vegetation and open fields were less preferred and steep terrain was avoided, indicating that FRDD were synanthropic and that their space patterns likely optimised energy use. Results presented here provide novel data on FRDD habitat selection patterns, while improving our understanding of dog roaming behaviour. These findings provide insights into possible high-risk locations for pathogen transmission for diseases such as rabies, and can assist management authorities in the planning and deployment of efficient disease control campaigns, including oral vaccination. |
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spelling | pubmed-97195312022-12-05 Habitat selection by free-roaming domestic dogs in rabies endemic countries in rural and urban settings Cunha Silva, Laura Friker, Brian Warembourg, Charlotte Kanankege, Kaushi Wera, Ewaldus Berger-González, Monica Alvarez, Danilo Dürr, Salome Sci Rep Article Domestic dogs can affect human health through bites and pathogen transmission, particularly in resource-poor countries where dogs, including owned ones, predominantly roam freely. Habitat and resource selection analysis methods are commonplace in wildlife studies but have not been used to investigate the environmental resource use of free-roaming domestic dogs (FRDD). The present study implements GPS devices to investigate habitat selection by FRDD from an urban site and a rural site in Indonesia, and one urban and two rural sites in Guatemala (N = 321 dogs). Spatial mixed effects logistic regression models, accounting for heterogeneous distribution of the resources, showed that patterns of habitat selection by FRDD were similar across study sites. The most preferred resources were anthropogenic, being buildings and roads, which implies selection for human proximity. Vegetation and open fields were less preferred and steep terrain was avoided, indicating that FRDD were synanthropic and that their space patterns likely optimised energy use. Results presented here provide novel data on FRDD habitat selection patterns, while improving our understanding of dog roaming behaviour. These findings provide insights into possible high-risk locations for pathogen transmission for diseases such as rabies, and can assist management authorities in the planning and deployment of efficient disease control campaigns, including oral vaccination. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-12-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9719531/ /pubmed/36463285 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25038-z Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Cunha Silva, Laura Friker, Brian Warembourg, Charlotte Kanankege, Kaushi Wera, Ewaldus Berger-González, Monica Alvarez, Danilo Dürr, Salome Habitat selection by free-roaming domestic dogs in rabies endemic countries in rural and urban settings |
title | Habitat selection by free-roaming domestic dogs in rabies endemic countries in rural and urban settings |
title_full | Habitat selection by free-roaming domestic dogs in rabies endemic countries in rural and urban settings |
title_fullStr | Habitat selection by free-roaming domestic dogs in rabies endemic countries in rural and urban settings |
title_full_unstemmed | Habitat selection by free-roaming domestic dogs in rabies endemic countries in rural and urban settings |
title_short | Habitat selection by free-roaming domestic dogs in rabies endemic countries in rural and urban settings |
title_sort | habitat selection by free-roaming domestic dogs in rabies endemic countries in rural and urban settings |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9719531/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36463285 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25038-z |
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