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Habitat quality, water quality and otter distribution
Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy, 1995 <strong>Abstract</strong> In recent decades the otter (<em>Lutra lutra</em>) has declined over much of Europe. Good habitat has been shown to be essential to otters. Specific elements of cover have been identified in some studies
Christopher Mason
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Measuring habitat quality for waterbirds: A review. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2023 Quantifying habitat quality is dependent on measuring a site’s relative contribution to population growth rate. This is challenging for studies of waterbirds, whose high mobility can decouple demographic rates from local habitat conditions and make sustained monitoring of individuals near-impossible.
Mott R +6 more
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Slender naiad (Najas flexilis) habitat quality assessment [PDF]
, 2020 N. flexilis is a rare aquatic plant species of European conservation importance. The species is believed to be under increasing threat in its Scottish stronghold. However, the factors that affect the health of N.
Gunn, Iain D.M., Carvalho, Laurence
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Remote Sensing, 2021 The intensity of human activity, habitat loss and habitat degradation have significant impacts on biodiversity. Habitat quality plays an important role in spatial dynamics when evaluating fragmented landscapes and the effectiveness of biodiversity ...
Linlin Wu, Caige Sun, Fenglei Fan
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Drivers of habitat quality for a reintroduced elk herd. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2022 AbstractUnderstanding spatiotemporal variation in habitat quality is essential for guiding wildlife reintroduction and restoration programs. The habitat productivity hypothesis posits that home range size is inversely related to habitat quality. Thus, home range size may be used as a proxy for habitat quality and can identify important land cover ...
Quinlan BA +6 more
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Determining habitat quality for species that demonstrate dynamic habitat selection [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2015 AbstractDetermining habitat quality for wildlife populations requires relating a species' habitat to its survival and reproduction. Within a season, species occurrence and density can be disconnected from measures of habitat quality when resources are highly seasonal, unpredictable over time, and patchy. Here we establish an explicit link among dynamic
Beerens, James M. +3 more
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Measuring juvenile habitat quality for fishes and invertebrates. [PDF]
Biol Rev Camb Philos SocABSTRACT Identifying the role of marine and estuarine habitats in supporting fish and invertebrate populations during vulnerable juvenile life stages is essential to achieve effective conservation and fisheries management.
Ciotti BJ +12 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2022 The area and quality of shorebird stopover habitat along the key East Asian–Australasian Flyway migratory route has decreased. The cause is not fully understood.
Houlang Duan, Xiubo Yu
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Habitat quality, not habitat amount, drives mammalian habitat use in the Brazilian Pantanal
Landscape Ecology, 2021 An understanding of species-habitat relationships is required to assess the impacts of habitat fragmentation and degradation. To date, habitat modeling in fragmented landscapes has relied on landscape composition and configuration metrics and the importance of habitat quality in determining species distributions has not been sufficiently explored.
André Luis Regolin +3 more
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Slender naiad (Najas flexilis) habitat quality assessment – site prioritisation. [PDF]
, 2021 This report is the result of the second phase of the slender naiad (Najas flexilis) habitat quality assessment ...
Taylor, Philip +3 more
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