Landscape complexity persists as a critical source of bias in terrestrial animal home range estimation

DR Heit, W Ortiz‐Calo, RA Montgomery - Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Home ranges provide a conceptual and quantitative representation of animal‐habitat
associations over time. Methods to estimate home ranges have swiftly progressed by …

Landscape genetics reveals unique and shared effects of urbanization for two sympatric pool‐breeding amphibians

JJ Homola, CS Loftin, MT Kinnison - Ecology and Evolution, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Metapopulation‐structured species can be negatively affected when landscape
fragmentation impairs connectivity. We investigated the effects of urbanization on genetic …

Effects of conditionally expressed phenotypes and environment on amphibian dispersal in nature

BH Ousterhout, RD Semlitsch - Oikos, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Individuals vary greatly in the distance they disperse, and in doing so, strongly affect
ecological and evolutionary processes. Dispersal, when viewed as a component of …

The high cost of movement in an arid working landscape for an endangered amphibian

CW Brocka, MV Mazzamuto… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Connectivity is essential for the maintenance of genetic diversity and stability of wildlife
populations. Drought and changing precipitation regimes have caused natural aquatic …

What do we know about the life-history traits of widely hunted tropical mammals?

N van Vliet, R Nasi - Oryx, 2019 - cambridge.org
We synthesize information on parameters useful for managing the hunting of two common
mammal species that are important for local people in the Neotropics and Africa: Cuniculus …

A novel protocol for three‐dimensional mapping of sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus) enclosure use in aquaria: Implications for management

LC Metrione, NK Pham, C Price, L Duskin… - Zoo …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigated sand tiger shark (STS; Carcharias taurus) spatial use and exclusion
in public aquarium enclosures using a novel protocol for three‐dimensional mapping. Fifty …

Microhabitat use by Mediterranean ribbed newts: newts in highly fluctuating conditions?

D Escoriza, J Ben Hassine - Journal of Natural History, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Ribbed newts (genus Pleurodeles) are among the few species of amphibians present in
open, dry and warm southern Mediterranean habitats. However, the factors that determine …

Restricted use of space in an endemic lizard of the Andes: addressing the effects of intrinsic and environmental factors

AE Victorica Erostarbe, GA Fava, JC Acosta - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2022 - Springer
Spatial ecology often results from the interaction between animals' spatial use behavior and
the characteristics of their environment, which can have implications for social relationships …

Potential path volume (PPV): a geometric estimator for space use in 3D

U Demšar, JA Long - Movement Ecology, 2019 - Springer
Background Many animals move in three dimensions and many animal tracking studies
collect the data on their movement in three physical dimensions. However, there is a lack of …

[PDF][PDF] EFFICACY AND USES OF PIT TAG TELEMETRY IN SALAMANDERS FROM THE WESTERN USA: ANEIDES VAGRANS, ENSATINA ESCHSCHOLTZII

A MAVORTIUM - Herpetological Conservation and Biology, 2022 - rmbl.org
Mark-recapture studies make use of uniquely marked individuals to answer fine-scale
questions about population dynamics, movement patterns, and longevity. Passive integrated …