Conceptual and methodological advances in habitat‐selection modeling: guidelines for ecology and evolution

JM Northrup, E Vander Wal, M Bonar… - Ecological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat selection is a fundamental animal behavior that shapes a wide range of ecological
processes, including animal movement, nutrient transfer, trophic dynamics and population …

What do we know (and need to know) about the role of urban habitats as ecological traps? Systematic review and meta-analysis

J Zuniga-Palacios, I Zuria, I Castellanos, C Lara… - Science of the total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Urban areas represent a spectrum that goes from being safe habitats for biodiversity (ie,
habitats more or equally preferred, without costs to fitness) to being ecological traps (ie …

Integrated step selection analysis: bridging the gap between resource selection and animal movement

T Avgar, JR Potts, MA Lewis… - Methods in Ecology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A resource selection function is a model of the likelihood that an available spatial unit will be
used by an animal, given its resource value. But how do we appropriately define …

Is there a correlation between abundance and environmental suitability derived from ecological niche modelling? A meta‐analysis

MM Weber, RD Stevens, JAF Diniz‐Filho… - Ecography, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
It is thought that species abundance is correlated with environmental suitability and that
environmental variables, scale, and type of model fitting can confound this relationship. We …

Relative selection strength: Quantifying effect size in habitat‐and step‐selection inference

T Avgar, SR Lele, JL Keim, MS Boyce - Ecology and evolution, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat‐selection analysis lacks an appropriate measure of the ecological significance of the
statistical estimates—a practical interpretation of the magnitude of the selection coefficients …

Wild boar mapping using population-density statistics: From polygons to high resolution raster maps

C Pittiglio, S Khomenko, D Beltran-Alcrudo - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The wild boar is an important crop raider as well as a reservoir and agent of spread of swine
diseases. Due to increasing densities and expanding ranges worldwide, the related …

Habitat selection patterns are density dependent under the ideal free distribution

T Avgar, GS Betini, JM Fryxell - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Despite being widely used, habitat selection models are rarely reliable and informative
when applied across different ecosystems or over time. One possible explanation is that …

Combining human acceptance and habitat suitability in a unified socio‐ecological suitability model: A case study of the wolf in Switzerland

DM Behr, A Ozgul, G Cozzi - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat suitability models (HSMs) are commonly used in conservation practise to assess the
potential of an area to be occupied and colonised. A major limitation of these models …

Integrated population modeling provides the first empirical estimates of vital rates and abundance for polar bears in the Chukchi Sea

EV Regehr, NJ Hostetter, RR Wilson, KD Rode… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Large carnivores are imperiled globally, and characteristics making them vulnerable to
extinction (eg, low densities and expansive ranges) also make it difficult to estimate …

Density‐dependent habitat selection alters drivers of population distribution in northern Yellowstone elk

BJ Smith, DR MacNulty, DR Stahler, DW Smith… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Although it is well established that density dependence drives changes in organismal
abundance over time, relatively little is known about how density dependence affects …