Decision making can be facilitated by observing other individuals faced with the same or
similar problem, and recent research suggests that this social information use is a …

When individual animals make decisions, they routinely use information produced
intentionally or unintentionally by other individuals. Despite its prevalence and established …

Although habitat loss and fragmentation are widely regarded as major factors contributing to
the decline of many populations, the relative importance of each phenomenon is seldom …

Recent insights from habitat selection theory may help conservation managers encourage
released animals to settle in appropriate habitats. By all measures, success rates for captive …

Habitat selection can determine the distribution and performance of individuals if the
precision with which sites are chosen corresponds with exposure to risks or resources …

Many species across taxa select habitat based on conspecific presence, known as
conspecific attraction. Studies that document conspecific attraction typically provide social …

Although effects of physical barriers to animal movement are well established, the
behavioral inhibition of individuals moving across habitat gaps, ecotones, and interpatch …

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

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 …

Analysis of factors influencing the success or failure of translocation programmes is crucial
to understand broadly the process of establishment of new populations (Seddon et al., 2007) …