Research overview: home-range compression from concentrated urban food

Concentrated, predictable food in cities allows carnivores to meet their needs over smaller areas, contributing to the strikingly compressed home ranges documented in urban felids from leopards to pumas and bobcats. This overview synthesises telemetry research linking resource concentration to range size, disentangling the roles of food subsidy, habitat availability and movement barriers in producing small urban ranges. It examines the consequences of compression for density, social interaction, intraspecific conflict and disease transmission. The synthesis frames home-range contraction as a key spatial signature of felid life in resource-rich but space-limited urban landscapes.