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 …

Recent theory suggests that attraction to conspecifics during habitat selection can be one
potential, yet untested, mechanism for animal sensitivity to habitat fragmentation. The least …

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 …

Habitat loss has pervasive and disruptive impacts on biodiversity in habitat remnants. The
magnitude of the ecological impacts of habitat loss can be exacerbated by the spatial …

Traditional approaches to the study of fragmented landscapes invoke an island-ocean
model and assume that the nonhabitat matrix surrounding remnant patches is uniform. Patch …

Summary 1 The perspective that populations and communities are structured by
antagonistic interactions among individuals has dominated much of ecology. Yet how …

Abstract Theory on density-dependent habitat selection predicts that as population density of
a species increases, use of higher quality (primary) habitat by individuals declines while use …

Although neglected by classic niche theory, individual variation is now recognized as a
prevalent phenomenon in nature with evolutionary and ecological relevance. Recent theory …

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 …

Both habitat complexity and priority effects can influence the strength of competitive
interactions; however, the independent and synergistic effects of these processes are not …