Models of habitat preference are widely used to quantify animal–habitat relationships, to
describe and predict differential space use by animals, and to identify habitat that is …

The field of habitat ecology has been muddled by imprecise terminology regarding what
constitutes habitat, and how importance is measured through use, selection, avoidance and …

Abstract “Home range” is a standard concept in animal ecology and behavior but few people
try to understand what home ranges mean to the animals that have them and often assume …

We outline how principles of optimal foraging developed for diet and food patch selection
might be applied to movement behaviour expressed over larger spatial and temporal scales …

Most studies of intraspecific variation in home range size have investigated only a single or
a few factors and often at one specific scale. However, considering multiple spatial and …

Ungulate populations exhibiting partial migration present a unique opportunity to explore the
causes of the general phenomenon of migration. The European roe deer Capreolus …

Each spring, migratory herbivores around the world track or 'surf'green waves of newly
emergent vegetation to distant summer or wet‐season ranges. This foraging tactic may help …

Habitats have substantial influence on the distribution and abundance of animals. Animals'
selective movement yields their habitat use. Animals generally are more abundant in …

Summary 1 In recent years, the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) has been
used to assess the relationships between habitat quality and animal life‐history traits. Since …

Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 915–935 Abstract Fitness costs of reproduction play a key role in
understanding the evolution of reproductive tactics. Nevertheless, the detection and the …