ArticleScientific reports2022
Mapping the "catscape" formed by a population of pet cats with outdoor access.
Article in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Cats, dogs, and sticky worms: invasion by land flatworms (Geoplanidae) is facilitated by household pets.PeerJ · 2026Article
- Do Peri-Urban Areas Act as Refuges for the European Rabbit (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Four Years of Promising Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) in Córdoba, Spain: A Scalable Model for Urban Feline Management.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Density and Home Range of Cats in a Small Inhabited Mediterranean Island.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Risk factors for tick attachment in companion animals in Great Britain: a spatiotemporal analysis covering 2014-2021.Parasites & vectors · 2024Article
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- Seasonal Movement Patterns of Urban Domestic Cats Living on the Edge in an African City.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
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Abstract
The domestic cat (Felis catus) is among the most popular companion animals and most abundant carnivores globally. It is also a pet with an immense ecological footprint because even non-feral and food-subsidized cats can be prolific predators. Whereas knowledge about the spatial behavior of individual domestic cats is growing, we still know little about how a local population of free-ranging pet cats occupies the landscape. Using a citizen science approach, we GPS-tagged 92 pet cats with outdoor access living in a residential area in southern Norway. The resulting position data allowed us to construct both individual home range kernels and a population-level utilization distribution. Our results reveal a dense predatory blanket that outdoor cats drape over and beyond the urban landscape. It is this population-level intensity surface-the "catscape"-that potential prey have to navigate. There were few gaps in the catscape within our residential study area and therefore few terrestrial refuges from potential cat predation. However, cats spent on average 79% of their outdoor time within 50 m to their owner's home, which suggests that the primary impact is local and most acute for wildlife in the vicinity to homes with cats. We discuss the catscape as a conceptual and quantitative tool for better understanding and mitigating the environmental impact of domestic cats.
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