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2022
This review provides support for the role of both macro- and micro-scale factors driving habitat selection by the little bustard. At a regional scale, little bustard distribution shows a clear relationship with temperature-related variables, but also a strong conspecific attraction and a tendency to philopatry at a local scale, making it especially ...
Traba, Javier +4 more
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Habitat selection and the perceptual trap

Ecological Applications, 2010
The concept of “ecological traps” was introduced over three decades ago. An ecological trap occurs when, by various mechanisms, low‐quality (yielding low fitness) habitat is more attractive than good habitat, thus coaxing individuals to settle there despite a resultant loss of fitness. Empirical work on such traps has increased dramatically in the past
Michael A, Patten, Jeffrey F, Kelly
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The selection of habitats among the monogenea

International Journal for Parasitology, 1998
The pressures responsible for the selection of "non-ectoparasitic" habitats in the Monogenea are discussed. It is suggested that certain monogeneans have become internal to reduce the pressures exerted by predators of ectoparasites rather than to avoid competition with other ectoparasites or to have access to better resources.
L, Euzet, C, Combes
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Habitat Selection in Birds

The Condor, 1987
Introduction. Habitat Selection in Specific Bird Taxa. Habitat Selection in Specific Habitat Types. A Variety of Approaches to Habitat Selection in Birds.
Nathaniel T. Wheelwright, Martin L. Cody
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15. life on land
medicine
animals

resource selection function
14. life underwater
models, biological

resource selection
ecosystem
environment