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 …

Designing studies of predation risk for improved inference in carnivore-ungulate systems

LR Prugh, KJ Sivy, PJ Mahoney, TR Ganz… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Quantifying both the lethal and non-lethal (or “risk”) effects of predation has emerged as a
major research focus in carnivore-ungulate systems. While numerous studies have …

Integrated step selection analysis: bridging the gap between resource selection and animal movement

T Avgar, JR Potts, MA Lewis… - Methods in Ecology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A resource selection function is a model of the likelihood that an available spatial unit will be
used by an animal, given its resource value. But how do we appropriately define …

A 'dynamic'landscape of fear: prey responses to spatiotemporal variations in predation risk across the lunar cycle

MS Palmer, J Fieberg, A Swanson, M Kosmala… - Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Ambiguous empirical support for 'landscapes of fear'in natural systems may stem from failure
to consider dynamic temporal changes in predation risk. The lunar cycle dramatically alters …

Variable strategies to solve risk–reward tradeoffs in carnivore communities

J Ruprecht, CE Eriksson, TD Forrester… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Mesopredator release theory suggests that dominant predators suppress subordinate
carnivores and ultimately shape community dynamics, but the assumption that subordinate …

Habitat and social factors shape individual decisions and emergent group structure during baboon collective movement

A Strandburg-Peshkin, DR Farine, MC Crofoot… - elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
For group-living animals traveling through heterogeneous landscapes, collective movement
can be influenced by both habitat structure and social interactions. Yet research in collective …

[HTML][HTML] An adaptive behavioural response to hunting: surviving male red deer shift habitat at the onset of the hunting season

K Lone, LE Loe, EL Meisingset, I Stamnes, A Mysterud - Animal Behaviour, 2015 - Elsevier
Hunting by humans can be a potent driver of selection for morphological and life history
traits in wildlife populations across continents and taxa. Few studies, however, have …

Estimating utilization distributions from fitted step‐selection functions

J Signer, J Fieberg, T Avgar - Ecosphere, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat‐selection analyses are often used to link environmental covariates, measured within
some spatial domain of assumed availability, to animal location data that are assumed to be …

Space‐use behaviour of woodland caribou based on a cognitive movement model

T Avgar, JA Baker, GS Brown, JS Hagens… - Journal of Animal …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Movement patterns offer a rich source of information on animal behaviour and the ecological
significance of landscape attributes. This is especially useful for species occupying remote …

Habitat complexity mediates the predator–prey space race

JA Smith, E Donadio, JN Pauli, MJ Sheriff, OR Bidder… - Ecology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The spatial relationship between predator and prey is often conceptualized as a behavioral
response race, in which prey avoid predators while predators track prey. Limiting habitat …