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Do greater sage‐grouse exhibit maladaptive habitat selection?

Ecosphere, 2021
Maladaptive habitat selection, where animals select habitat with reduced fitness potential or avoid otherwise suitable habitat, exacerbates the threat of population decline for species vulnerable from habitat loss and fragmentation.
Aaron C. Pratt, Jeffrey L. Beck
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Habitat choice for narrowly distributed species: Multiple spatial scales of habitat selection for the Mangshan pit viper

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2023
Understanding habitat demand is key to in situ fauna conservation. While there is increasing evidence of the importance of habitat selection research at multiple spatial scales, snake habitat research has typically neglected the rationality of selecting ...
Bing Zhang, Xiangyun Ding, Shuheng Li, Linhai Li, Zhanqiang Wen, Yonghui Li, Jun Chen, Daode Yang   +7 more
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Habitat selection by American beaver at multiple spatial scales

Animal Biotelemetry, 2019
Background Semiaquatic mammals require both aquatic and terrestrial habitats, particularly interfaces between the two habitats. As ecosystem engineers, American beaver (Castor canadensis) consume and fell a great amount of deciduous trees.
Guiming Wang, Lance F. McClintic, Jimmy D. Taylor   +2 more
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Invasion of annual grasses following wildfire corresponds to maladaptive habitat selection by a sagebrush ecosystem indicator species

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2022
Numerous wildlife species within semi-arid shrubland ecosystems across western North America are experiencing substantial habitat loss and fragmentation.
Brianne E. Brussee, Peter S. Coates, Shawn T. O’Neil, Michael L. Casazza, Shawn P. Espinosa, John D. Boone, Elisabeth M. Ammon, Scott C. Gardner, David J. Delehanty   +8 more
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Density-dependent, central-place foraging in a grazing herbivore: competition and tradeoffs in time allocation near water [PDF]

, 2015
Optimal foraging theory addresses one of the core challenges of ecology: predicting the distribution and abundance of species. Tests of hypotheses of optimal foraging, however, often focus on a single conceptual model rather than drawing upon the ...
Andersson, Berger, Boyce, Bryant, Chapman, Charnov, Christie, Chudzinska, Contasti, Contasti, Fretwell, Gillies, Holway, Houston, James, Jenkins, Johnson, Kramer, Landman, Lewison, Lysak, Manly, Marjamäki, McAleer, Mysterud, Orians, Owen-Smith, Patenaude-Monette, Patrick, Redfern, Rita, Roever, Rosenberg, Rosenzweig, Rosenzweig, Schoener, Shrader, Stephens, Street, Tamm, Thomas, Tissier, Trash, Valeix, Valeix, van Beest, van Beest, Wakefield, Welsh, Wood   +49 more
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A General Approach for the Analysis of Habitat Selection [PDF]

, 2007
Investigating habitat selection of animals aims at the detection of preferred and avoided habitat types as well as at the identification of covariates influencing the choice of certain habitat types.
Knauer, Felix, Kneib, Thomas, Küchenhoff, Helmut   +2 more
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Territorial landscapes: incorporating density-dependence into wolf habitat selection studies [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2019
Habitat selection is a process that spans space, time and individual life histories. Ecological analyses of animal distributions and preferences are most accurate when they account for inherent dynamics of the habitat selection process.
Shawn T. O'Neil, Dean E. Beyer, Joseph K. Bump   +2 more
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What wild dogs want: habitat selection differs across life stages and orders of selection in a wide-ranging carnivore

BMC Zoology, 2020
Background Habitat loss is a key threat to the survival of many species. Habitat selection studies provide key information for conservation initiatives by identifying important habitat and anthropogenic characteristics influencing the distribution of ...
Helen M. K. O’Neill, Sarah M. Durant, Rosie Woodroffe   +2 more
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Seasonal variation in habitat selection for a Neotropical migratory songbird using high‐resolution GPS tracking

Ecosphere, 2021
Deciphering how environmental heterogeneity affects population dynamics in migratory species is complicated by the redistribution of individuals in time and space across the annual cycle.
Calandra Q. Stanley, Michele R. Dudash, Thomas B. Ryder, W. Gregory Shriver, Kimberly Serno, Solny Adalsteinsson, Peter P. Marra   +6 more
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Relationships Between Habitat and Snag Characteristics and the Reproductive Success of the Brown-headed Nuthatch (Sitta pusilla) in Eastern Texas. [PDF]

, 2004
Habitat use and reproductive success of the Brown-headed Nuthatch (Sitta pusilla Latham) were studied in East Texas during the 2001-2002 breeding seasons. We compared nest cavity selection at used and randomly selected non-used areas.
Burt, Brent, Coble, Dean W., Conner, Richard N., Dornak, L. Lynnette   +3 more
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