Multi-scale habitat selection modeling: a review and outlook

K McGarigal, HY Wan, KA Zeller, BC Timm… - Landscape …, 2016 - Springer
Context Scale is the lens that focuses ecological relationships. Organisms select habitat at
multiple hierarchical levels and at different spatial and/or temporal scales within each level …

Effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on amphibians: a review and prospectus

SA Cushman - Biological conservation, 2006 - Elsevier
Habitat loss and fragmentation are among the largest threats to amphibian populations.
However, most studies have not provided clear insights into their population-level …

Quantifying the impact of environmental factors on arthropod communities in agricultural landscapes across organizational levels and spatial scales

O Schweiger, JP Maelfait… - Journal of applied …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 In landscapes influenced by anthropogenic activities, such as intensive
agriculture, knowledge of the relative importance and interaction of environmental factors on …

Linking fish and prawns to their environment: a hierarchical landscape approach

SJ Pittman, CA McAlpine, KM Pittman - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2004 - int-res.com
Little is known about the relative influence of landscape structure on the spatial distribution
and abundance of marine organisms. To address this problem, we applied landscape …

The relative importance of landscape properties for woodland birds in agricultural environments

JQ Radford, AF Bennett - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 Studies of landscape change are seldom conducted at scales commensurate
with the processes they purport to investigate. Landscape change is a landscape‐level …

The influence of landscape, patch, and within-patch factors on species presence and abundance: a review of focal patch studies

DH Thornton, LC Branch, ME Sunquist - Landscape Ecology, 2011 - Springer
Understanding the influence of large and small-scale heterogeneity on species distribution
and abundance is one of the major foci of landscape ecology research in fragmented …

Ecological filters and variability in stream macroinvertebrate communities: do taxonomic and functional structure follow the same path?

J Heino, H Mykrä, J Kotanen, T Muotka - Ecography, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We examined the community‐environment relationships of lotic macroinvertebrates in near‐
pristine headwater streams, and the correlation between patterns in taxonomic and …

Seasonal variation in habitat selection for a Neotropical migratory songbird using high‐resolution GPS tracking

CQ Stanley, MR Dudash, TB Ryder, WG Shriver… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Deciphering how environmental heterogeneity affects population dynamics in migratory
species is complicated by the redistribution of individuals in time and space across the …

Multi-scale analysis of species–environment relationships

SF Thrush, JE Hewitt, PMJ Herman… - Marine Ecology Progress …, 2005 - int-res.com
Species–environment models are important tools for ecology and conservation, but
ecologists generally lack knowledge of how spatial extent, habitat and environmental …

A test of the hierarchical model of habitat selection using eastern massasauga rattlesnakes (Sistrurus c. catenatus)

DS Harvey, PJ Weatherhead - Biological conservation, 2006 - Elsevier
Understanding the process animals follow to select habitat, rather than just documenting the
habitat they use, will improve our ability to predict how the animals use habitat in other …