Hours of the day
Another variable that has an effect on the habitat use activities of the identified species is the time zones. Although most wild mammals are active at night or in the dark, temporal analyzes show that there are exceptions (Figure 7).
Figure 7. The number of determined species depending on the time of day.
It is seen that the daily activities of the detected species start to increase from 17.00, continue to increase all night, and after 07.00 their activities begin to decrease and reach the lowest level during the day. By dividing the total of 3,730 records, which is the total of records of each 24 hours, by 24, the hourly recording average during the study period was calculated as 155. A total of 2,741 views were made between 19:00 and 06:00, when the species are most active and approximately half of the day. The average number of recordings in this hour range has account to be 249 (2,741/11). This value is well above the is 24-hour average of 155. It is clear evidence that these species are more active at night. Although there is a parallelism in the hourly activities of all species, it is striking that the daytime activities of boars, grey wolves and red deer are more than other species. Especially in the daytime activities of grey wolve and boar, the prey-predator connection has draw attention here as well. On the other hand, between 12:00 and 14:00 is the period when the number of species is the least. Brown bear, Eorasian lynx, European badger, wild cat, European hare, Eurasian otter and jungel cat are the species with less than 3 records between 08.00-17.00.
Bu durum Sokak et. almak. (2015), gün ortası sıcaklığının, özellikle yiyecek arama ihtiyaçlarına dayalı olarak, vahşi hayvanların habitat seçiminde termoregülatör ihtiyaçlara davranışsal bir tepki olarak değerlendirmiştir. Günün saatlerine bağlı olarak değişen derecelerde sıcaklık vahşi hayvanlar üzerinde stres yaratır ve buna karşı vahşi hayvanlar günlük aktivitelerinde değişikliklere giderler. Aksi takdirde, saatlik sıcaklığa bağlı olarak birçok türde habitat tercihlerinde değişiklikler meydana gelebilir. Bu, vahşi hayvanların gündüz aktivitelerinin seçiminde bir faktör olarak görünmektedir.