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Animals worldwide stick close to home when humans move in

Baboons, grizzly bears and dozens of other species are giving up their 'wild ways' as cities, farms and roads fracture habitat.
  1. Emma Marris
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Animals living in landscapes used intensively by people travel, on average, only half to one-third as far as animals in more remote areas do — a pattern that's consistent across dozens of species worldwide. The finding, published today in Science1, has implications for important ecological processes linked to animal movement, such as seed transport and nutrient cycling. And it could spell trouble for the animals themselves as the climate changes.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-01240-w

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  1. Tucker, M. A. et al. Science 359, 466-469 (2018).

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