ABSTRACT
Taking a cautionary step back from the process can allow an ecological risk assessment (ERA) practitioner to appreciate that there are great gains to be had by simplifying ERAs through keeping receptor lists short and uncomplicated. This study encourages individuals to directly measure the time allocation of acknowledged wide-ranging mammals over their total areas utilized (TAUs). Such information will either support the incorporation of these animals at commonplace, relatively small terrestrial sites, or it will not. Regardless of wide-ranging mammals being shown to be spatially relevant or not, the study brings forward a workable, direct, and site-specific methodology for defensible receptor-of-concern selection in ERAs for a distinct category of mammal. Appropriately showcased, the regulatory agencies should come to recognize that spatial movements-tracking can be a bona fide screening tool in this regard, particularly where it is recalled that an ERA goal is to streamline content.
