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High interindividual variability in habitat selection and functional habitat relationships in European nightjars over a period of habitat change

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
An animal's choice of foraging habitat reflects its response to environmental cues and is likely to vary among individuals in a population. Analyzing the magnitude of individual habitat selection can indicate how resilient populations may be to ...
Lucy J. Mitchell, Tim Kohler, Piran C. L. White, Kathryn E. Arnold   +3 more
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A comparison of ultrasonic detectors and radiotelemetry for studying bat–habitat relationships

Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2011
Ultrasonic bat detectors and radiotelemetry are 2 methods used to examine habitat selection for bats, but no one has empirically examined if conclusions drawn from these 2 methods are comparable and, although previous work has presented concerns ...
Adam D. Morris, Darren A. Miller, L. Mike Conner   +2 more
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Propagule limitation, disparate habitat quality, and variation in phenotypic selection at a local species range boundary.

PLoS ONE, 2014
Adaptation to novel conditions beyond current range boundaries requires the presence of suitable sites within dispersal range, but may be impeded when emigrants encounter poor habitat and sharply different selection pressures.
Kara A Moore, Maureen L Stanton
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Integrating Livestock Grazing and Sympatric Takin to Evaluate the Habitat Suitability of Giant Panda in the Wanglang Nature Reserve

Animals, 2021
Habitat suitability provides essential information for the management of protected species. However, studies that jointly consider the impacts of human disturbance and sympatric animals in habitat suitability assessments of giant panda are limited, which
Xiaoyu Chen, Xiaorong Wang, Junqing Li, Dongwei Kang   +3 more
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Quantifying habitat selection and variability in habitat suitability for juvenile white sharks

PLoS ONE, 2019
While adult white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) are apex predators with a circumglobal distribution, juvenile white sharks (JWS) feed primarily on bottom dwelling fishes and tend to be coastally associated.
C. White, Kady Lyons, S. Jorgensen, J. O'Sullivan, Chuck Winkler, K. Weng, C. Lowe   +6 more
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Habitat selection by Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) is primarily driven by avoidance of human activity during day and prey availability during night

Ecology and Evolution, 2017
The greatest threat to the protected Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in Central Europe is human‐induced mortality. As the availability of lynx prey often peaks in human‐modified areas, lynx have to balance successful prey hunting with the risk of encounters ...
M. Filla, J. Premier, Nora Magg, C. Dupke, I. Khorozyan, M. Waltert, L. Bufka, M. Heurich   +7 more
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Habitat selection in whiting [PDF]

Journal of Fish Biology, 2004
Given a choice of habitats in a laboratory experiment, whiting Merlangius merlangus preferentially spent most time over sand, then gravel and least time over a habitat with emergent structures. The introduction of a predator stimulus increased the preference for the sand habitat for large whiting, whereas small whiting had an increased preference for ...
C. J. L. Atkinson, M. Bergmann, M. J. Kaiser   +2 more
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Habitat-Selecting Life History

Fishes
Adaptive life histories emerge through their environmentally dependent effects on fitness. Those effects are consequences of habitat quality and the density-dependent decisions that organisms make on habitat choice. Density dependence for ideal organisms
Douglas W. Morris, Per Lundberg
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Habitat Selection [PDF]

, 2007
Habitat selection is the behavioural process determining the distribution of individuals among habitats varying in quality, thus affecting individual fitness and population growth. Models of population dynamics often assume that individuals have perfect knowledge about habitat qualities and settle accordingly in the best habitats available.
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Woodland caribou habitat selection patterns in relation to predation risk and forage abundance depend on reproductive state

Ecology and Evolution, 2018
The ideal free distribution assumes that animals select habitats that are beneficial to their fitness. When the needs of dependent offspring differ from those of the parent, ideal habitat selection patterns could vary with the presence or absence of ...
Rebecca Viejou, Tal Avgar, G. Brown, B. Patterson, Douglas E B Reid, A. Rodgers, J. Shuter, I. Thompson, J. Fryxell   +8 more
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