Conceptual and methodological advances in habitat‐selection modeling: guidelines for ecology and evolution

JM Northrup, E Vander Wal, M Bonar… - Ecological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat selection is a fundamental animal behavior that shapes a wide range of ecological
processes, including animal movement, nutrient transfer, trophic dynamics and population …

Emerging technologies for behavioral research in changing environments

ID Couzin, C Heins - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - cell.com
The first response exhibited by animals to changing environments is typically behavioral.
Behavior is thus central to predicting, and mitigating, the impacts that natural and …

A 'How to'guide for interpreting parameters in habitat‐selection analyses

J Fieberg, J Signer, B Smith… - Journal of Animal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat‐selection analyses allow researchers to link animals to their environment via habitat‐
selection or step‐selection functions, and are commonly used to address questions related …

Accounting for individual‐specific variation in habitat‐selection studies: Efficient estimation of mixed‐effects models using Bayesian or frequentist computation

S Muff, J Signer, J Fieberg - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Popular frameworks for studying habitat selection include resource‐selection functions
(RSFs) and step‐selection functions (SSFs), estimated using logistic and conditional logistic …

Understanding step selection analysis through numerical integration

T Michelot, NJ Klappstein, JR Potts… - Methods in Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Step selection functions (SSFs) are flexible statistical models used to jointly describe
animals' movement and habitat preferences. The popularity of SSFs has grown rapidly, and …

Artificial nightlight alters the predator–prey dynamics of an apex carnivore

MA Ditmer, DC Stoner, CD Francis, JR Barber… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial nightlight is increasingly recognized as an important environmental disturbance that
influences the habitats and fitness of numerous species. However, its effects on wide …

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 …

Simulating animal space use from fitted integrated Step‐Selection Functions (iSSF)

J Signer, J Fieberg, B Reineking… - Methods in Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A standing challenge in the study of animal movement ecology is the capacity to predict
where and when an individual animal might occur on the landscape, the so‐called …

There will be conflict–agricultural landscapes are prime, rather than marginal, habitats for Asian elephants

JA de la Torre, EP Wong, AM Lechner… - Animal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Misconceptions about species' ecological preferences compromise conservation efforts.
Whenever people and elephants share landscapes, human–elephant conflicts (HEC) occur …

How to scale up from animal movement decisions to spatiotemporal patterns: An approach via step selection

JR Potts, L Börger - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Uncovering the mechanisms behind animal space use patterns is of vital importance for
predictive ecology, thus conservation and management of ecosystems. Movement is a core …