10.5061/DRYAD.SP4FC64
Weterings, Martijn J A
Resource Ecology Group Wageningen University Wageningen The Netherlands
Ewert, Sophie P
Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences
Peereboom, Jeffrey N
Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences
Kuipers, Henry J
Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences
Kuijper, Dries P J
Polish Academy of Sciences
Prins, Herbert H T
Resource Ecology Group Wageningen University Wageningen The Netherlands
Jansen, Patrick A
Resource Ecology Group Wageningen University Wageningen The Netherlands
van Langevelde, Frank
Resource Ecology Group Wageningen University Wageningen The Netherlands
van Wieren, Sipke E
Resource Ecology Group Wageningen University Wageningen The Netherlands
Data from: Implications of shared predation for space use in two sympatric
leporids
Dryad
dataset
2019
alternative prey
space race
Oryctolagus cuniculus
habitat characteristics
habitat riskiness
Lepus europaeus
National Science Foundation
https://ror.org/021nxhr62
no
2019-03-29T13:36:41Z
2019-03-29T13:36:41Z
en
https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4980
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Spatial variation in habitat riskiness has a major influence on the
predator–prey space race. However, the outcome of this race can be
modulated if prey shares enemies with fellow prey (i.e., another prey
species). Sharing of natural enemies may result in apparent competition,
and its implications for prey space use remain poorly studied. Our
objective was to test how prey species spend time among habitats that
differ in riskiness, and how shared predation modulates the space use by
prey species. We studied a one‐predator, two‐prey system in a coastal dune
landscape in the Netherlands with the European hare (Lepus europaeus) and
European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) as sympatric prey species and red
fox (Vulpes vulpes) as their main predator. The fine‐scale space use by
each species was quantified using camera traps. We quantified residence
time as an index of space use. Hares and rabbits spent time differently
among habitats that differ in riskiness. Space use by predators and
habitat riskiness affected space use by hares more strongly than space use
by rabbits. Residence time of hare was shorter in habitats in which the
predator was efficient in searching or capturing prey species. However,
hares spent more time in edge habitat when foxes were present, even though
foxes are considered ambush predators. Shared predation affected the
predator–prey space race for hares positively, and more strongly than the
predator–prey space race for rabbits, which were not affected. Shared
predation reversed the predator–prey space race between foxes and hares,
whereas shared predation possibly also released a negative association and
promoted a positive association between our two sympatric prey species.
Habitat riskiness, species presence, and prey species’ escape mode and
foraging mode (i.e., central‐place vs. noncentral‐place forager) affected
the prey space race under shared predation.
Implications of shared predation_databaseMain database in SPSS format with
labels and codesImplications of shared predation_databaseMain database in
csv formatImplications of shared predation_R_scriptR
scriptCamera_detection_dataCamera detection data (6 files in csv format).
Direct distances and angles of first detection of hare, rabbit and fox in
open and half-open vegetation structure
North west Europe