Large-scale climatic drivers of bison distribution and abundance in North America since the Last Glacial Maximum

JAF Wendt, DB McWethy, C Widga… - Quaternary Science …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
As the dominant large herbivore in midcontinent North America since the terminal
Pleistocene, bison (Bison spp.) have been a fundamental component of ecosystems and …

Accounting for behaviour in fine‐scale habitat selection: A case study highlighting methodological intricacies

LT Beumer, NM Schmidt, J Pohle… - Journal of Animal …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Animal habitat selection—central in both theoretical and applied ecology—may depend on
behavioural motivations such as foraging, predator avoidance, and thermoregulation. Step …

Between a rock and a hard place: Rugged terrain features and human disturbance affect behaviour and habitat use of Sumatran elephants in Aceh, Sumatra …

G Wilson, RJ Gray, R Radinal, H Hasanuddin… - Biodiversity and …, 2021‏ - Springer
Asian elephants are threatened throughout their range due to habitat loss, fragmentation,
and conflict with humans. Limited data on spatial and temporal use of habitats in largely …

Quantifying behavior and life‐history events of an Arctic ungulate from year‐long continuous accelerometer data

M Chimienti, FM van Beest, LT Beumer… - …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Bio‐logging technology is now the golden standard for assessing how individual animals
change their movement and behavior over time and space. Three‐dimensional …

Geochemical landscapes as drivers of wildlife reproductive success: Insights from a high-Arctic ecosystem

FM van Beest, NM Schmidt, L Stewart… - Science of the Total …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The bioavailability of essential and non-essential elements in vegetation is expected to
influence the performance of free-ranging terrestrial herbivores. However, attempts to relate …

Ontogeny of movement patterns and habitat selection in juvenile albatrosses

CK Frankish, A Manica, TA Clay, AG Wood, RA Phillips - Oikos, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Optimal selection of foraging habitats is key to survival, but it remains unclear how naïve
individuals are able to locate patchily‐distributed resources and maximize energy gain in …

Energetics as common currency for integrating high resolution activity patterns into dynamic energy budget-individual based models

M Chimienti, JP Desforges, LT Beumer… - Ecological …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Dynamic energy budget individual-based models (DEB-IBMs) provide a well-tested
framework for modelling the acquisition and use of energy throughout the life cycle of …

How Plant Toxins Cause Early Larval Mortality in Herbivorous Insects: An Explanation by Modeling the Net Energy Curve

S Chakraborty, S Schuster - Toxins, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
Plants store chemical defenses that act as toxins against herbivores, such as toxic
isothiocyanates (ITCs) in Brassica plants, hydrolyzed from glucosinolate (GLS) precursors …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing contemporary Arctic habitat availability for a woolly mammoth proxy

J Poquérusse, CL Brown, C Gaillard, C Doughty… - Scientific Reports, 2024‏ - nature.com
Interest continues to grow in Arctic megafaunal ecological engineering, but, since the mass
extinction of megafauna~ 12–15 ka, key physiographic variables and available forage …

Growth rings show limited evidence for ungulates' potential to suppress shrubs across the Arctic

KEM Vuorinen, G Austrheim, JP Tremblay… - Environmental …, 2022‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Global warming has pronounced effects on tundra vegetation, and rising mean temperatures
increase plant growth potential across the Arctic biome. Herbivores may counteract the …