Purpose of review Forests are frequently exposed to natural disturbances, which are likely to
increase with global change, and may jeopardize the delivery of ecosystem services. Mixed …

Across the northern hemisphere, six species of aspen (Populus spp.) play a
disproportionately important role in promoting biodiversity, sequestering carbon, limiting …

We have written this book as a guide to the design and analysis of field studies of resource
selection, concentrating primarily on statistical aspects of the comparison of the use and …

They may influence us as individuals by their encouragement and guidance; they may affect
their community through their untiring commitment to service and the greater good; or they …

Habitat selection is the disproportionate use of available conditions and resources, and
involves responses in space and time to perceived risks and rewards. It frequently depends …

Resource selection functions (RSF) can be used to explore the role of scale in determining
patterns of habitat use. We estimated RSFs for 93 radiocollared adult female elk (Cervus …

The outcome of many high-order processes in ecology depends on the way in which the
abundance and distribution of plants affect the eating rate of mammalian herbivores …

Mechanisms that affect the spatial distribution of animals are typically scale‐dependent and
may involve forage distribution. Forage quality and quantity are often inversely correlated …

Choices of the spatial and temporal dimensions of ecological investigations define their
scale. In this paper, I identify some of the ways that issues of scale challenge ecologists in …

Although defence against herbivores is often argued to be the main action of plant
secondary metabolites (PSMs), very few examples have demonstrated that intraspecific …