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Water Is Needed to Exist: Habitat Preferences of Tiger Beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) in a Desert Country [PDF]

Insects, 2020
Tiger beetles are a group of predatory insects occurring mainly in diverse sandy areas, with particular species often characterised by narrow habitat preferences, which makes them both very important bioindicators for determining patterns of biodiversity
Radomir Jaskuła, Mateusz Płóciennik
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Linking habitat preferences and fitness across scales for a relict bird species of the southern Andes [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Animals select their habitats from available resources in a way that should maximize fitness, and thus habitat preferences are generally predicted to be adaptive.
Tomás A. Altamirano, Fernando J. Novoa, Zoltan Von Bernath, Alejandra Vermehren, Kathy Martin, Rocío Jara, Edwin R. Price, Ricardo Rozzi, José Tomás Ibarra   +8 more
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An assessment of the habitat preferences of European bison with airborne laser scanning data in forest ecosystem [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2023
Research on habitat preferences is an important part of contemporary ecology. For the European bison, the classic approach to distinguishing habitat features is still being followed, but the limitations of this approach cannot provide the standard ...
Daniel Klich, Krzysztof Stereńczak, Maciej Lisiewicz, Maria Sobczuk, Angelika Nieszała, Wanda Olech   +5 more
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Vertical habitat preferences shape the fish gut microbiota in a shallow lake [PDF]

Frontiers in Microbiology
Understanding the interactions between fish gut microbiota and the aquatic environment is a key issue for understanding aquatic microorganisms. Environmental microorganisms enter fish intestines through feeding, and the amount of invasion varies due to ...
Bowei Zhang, Bowei Zhang, Jiaman Xiao, Jiaman Xiao, Hongyan Liu, Hongyan Liu, Dongdong Zhai, Dongdong Zhai, Ying Wang, Ying Wang, Shujun Liu, Shujun Liu, Fei Xiong, Fei Xiong, Ming Xia, Ming Xia   +15 more
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The adaptive value of habitat preferences from a multi-scale spatial perspective: insights from marsh-nesting avian species [PDF]

PeerJ, 2017
Background Habitat selection and its adaptive outcomes are crucial features for animal life-history strategies. Nevertheless, congruence between habitat preferences and breeding success has been rarely demonstrated, which may result from the single-scale
Jan Jedlikowski, Mattia Brambilla
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Karstic Landscapes Are Foci of Species Diversity in the World’s Third-Largest Vertebrate Genus Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Reptilia: Squamata; Gekkonidae)

Diversity, 2021
Karstic landscapes are immense reservoirs of biodiversity and range-restricted endemism. Nowhere is this more evident than in the world’s third-largest vertebrate genus Cyrtodactylus (Gekkonidae) which contains well over 300 species.
Lee Grismer, Perry L. Wood, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Minh D. Le, Suranjan Karunarathna, Siriwadee Chomdej, Chatmongkon Suwannapoom, Shuo Qi, Shuo Liu, Jing Che, Evan S. H. Quah, Fred Kraus, Paul M. Oliver, Awal Riyanto, Olivier S. G. Pauwels, Jesse L. Grismer   +15 more
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Effects of frugivore preferences and habitat heterogeneity on seed rain: a multi-scale analysis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Seed rain mediated by frugivores is influenced by (1) the seed-deposition distances following fruit ingestion, (2) the disperser activity, as determined by its behaviour and habitat preferences, and (3) the structure of the habitat within the landscape ...
Javier Rodríguez-Pérez, Asier R Larrinaga, Luis Santamaría   +2 more
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Habitat selection by nestbox-breeding birds and Roe Deer are incongruent within a heterogeneous woodland landscape

Avian Research, 2022
Conserving species relies upon acquiring an understanding of their use of habitat, yet our understanding of the use of habitat by co-existing species of different guilds at microgeographic scales remains poor.
Kevin B. Briggs, Mark C. Mainwaring
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Diversity of Spring Invertebrates and Their Habitats: A Story of Preferences

Diversity, 2022
Springs, as unique ecotonal habitats between surface and hypogean areas, are considered endangered aquatic ecosystems due to direct and indirect human impacts and climate change issues.
Mirela Cîmpean, Anca-Mihaela Șuteu, Alexia Berindean, Karina P. Battes   +3 more
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Local and Landscape Factors Influence Plant-Pollinator Networks and Bee Foraging Behavior across an Urban Corridor

Land, 2023
Given widespread concerns over human-mediated bee declines in abundance and species richness, conservation efforts are increasingly focused on maintaining natural habitats to support bee diversity in otherwise resource-poor environments. However, natural
Gabriella L. Pardee, Kimberly M. Ballare, John L. Neff, Lauren Q. Do, DianaJoyce Ojeda, Elisa J. Bienenstock, Berry J. Brosi, Tony H. Grubesic, Jennifer A. Miller, Daoqin Tong, Shalene Jha   +10 more
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