Large carnivore feeding is resilient to human disturbance

Impacts of anthropogenic disturbance on wild populations have the potential to alter natural systems. Humans are a main source of mortality for terrestrial carnivores that far exceeds natural mortality, which may lead to commensurate antipredator responses of carnivores toward humans. These behavioural changes have been implicated in trophic cascades, resulting in ecological alterations due to changes in space use or altered kill rates by predators to offset resource losses. These implications highlight the importance of evaluating behavioural responses of carnivores to human disturbance. While studies have implemented both correlative analyses and experimental proxies for human disturbance to assess these questions, here we leveraged an approach using direct human encounters at feeding sites of mountain lions in central Wyoming, USA. Counter to previous studies, mountain lions responded to disturbances through extended time budgets dedicated to feeding sites, >80% return rates after..., , , # Data from: Large carnivore feeding is resilient to human disturbance

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.tb2rbp0c7](10.5061/dryad.tb2rbp0c7)

## Description of the data and file structure

### Files and variables

#### File: Clus_Summary.csv

**Description:** Complete summary output from GPSeqClus clustering algorithm

##### Variables

* AID: animal identification
* clus_ID3: cluster identification number
* clus_start: timestamp of cluster start
* clus_end: timestamp of cluster end
* clus_dur_hr: cluster duration in hours (clus_end – clus_start)
* n_clus_locs: number of locations in the cluster
* visits: number of times (bouts) the cluster was visited
* fix_succ_clus_dur: the fix success during the cluster duration (total / successful attempts)
* adj_clus_locs: locations adjusted for fix success (n_clus_locs / fix_succ_clus_dur)
* Fid: fidelity to the cluster (m) (n_clus_locs – locations away from cluster)
* max_foray: maximum foray from cluster centroid (m)
* clus_radius: maximum cluster ra...,