We analyzed the ecological conditions that may favor a habitat selection process in which
later arriving individuals (colonists) use the presence of earlier established species …

I argue here that, from the perspective of any individual, most landscapes are composed of
only three basic types of habitats. These are:(1) source habitat in which reproduction …

Attraction to conspecifics may have wide-ranging implications for habitat selection and
metapopulation theory, yet little is known about the process of attraction and its effects …

I evaluate habitat matching rules based on ideal distribution models of density-dependent
habitat use. Recent approaches and the ideal free continuous input matching rule on which …

Much of current habitat‐selection theory assumes that individual fitness monotonically
declines as a function of density, and that social interactions among settlers are entirely …

Classical models of breeding habitat selection rarely deal with the question of information
gathering for patch quality assessment. In this paper, we present two models comparing the …

The study of habitat selection and population interactions has a history about as long as any
integrative topic in ecology. Its literature is classically scientific in the sense that it combines …

Because habitats have profound effects on individual fitness, there is strong selection for
improving the choice of breeding habitat. One possible mechanism is for individuals to use …

Conspecific attraction is the preferential settlement into habitat patches with conspecifics. To
be a good proximate strategy, fitness gains from settling with conspecifics must outweigh the …

Social information transmission is important because it enables horizontal spread of
behaviors, not only between conspecifics but also between individuals of different species …