On territorial behavior and other factors influencing habitat distribution in birds
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In this article, the Dickcissel sex ratio is employed as an indirect index of suitability and a sex ratio index was found to be correlated positively with density, consistent with the hypothesis that territorial behavior in males of this species limits their density.Abstract:
This example is provided so that non-theorists may see actual applications of the theory previously described. The Dickcissel sex ratio is employed as an indirect index of suitability. A sex ratio index was found to be correlated positively with density. This is consistent with the hypothesis that territorial behavior in the males of this species limits their density. This study provides a valid example of how the problem can be approached and offers a first step in the eventual identification of the role of territorial behavior in the habitat distribution of a common species.read more
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Street lighting: sex‐independent impacts on moth movement
Tobias Degen,Tobias Degen,Oliver Mitesser,Elizabeth K. Perkin,Nina-Sophie Weiß,Martin Oehlert,Emily Mattig,Franz Hölker +7 more
TL;DR: Evidence is provided for street lights to limit moth dispersal and that they seem to act equally on male and female moths, as well as any sex bias in attraction to light.
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Reproductive decisions under threat of predation: squirrel treefrog (Hyla squirella) responses to banded sunfish (Enneacanthus obesus)
TL;DR: Data support an alternative mechanism, based primarily on maternal behavior, explaining classic patterns of anuran species composition across a landscape of breeding sites.
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Habitat selection by feral cats and dingoes in a semi-arid woodland environment in central Australia
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the habitat use of feral cats and dingoes in a heterogeneous semi-arid woodland site in central Australia over two years and found that the densities of cats were higher in mulga habitat than in open habitat.
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Evolutionary stability of ideal free nonlocal dispersal.
TL;DR: It is found that the property of producing ideal free distributions is necessary and often sufficient for evolutionary stability and those already developed for discrete diffusion models on finite patch networks for nonlocal dispersal models based on integrodifferential equations are extended.
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Feedbacks between community assembly and habitat selection shape variation in local colonization.
Johanna M. Kraus,James R. Vonesh +1 more
TL;DR: The results show that community assembly causes taxa-dependent feedbacks that can modify avoidance of habitats containing a top predator, which reinforces the importance of habitat selection for community assembly in aquatic systems, while illustrating the range of factors that may influence colonization rates and resulting community structure.
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Animal dispersion in relation to social behaviour
TL;DR: Wynne-Edwards has written this interesting and important book as a sequel to his earlier (1962) Animal Dispersion in Relation to Social Behaviour, and reviewing it has proven to be a valuable task for one who normally is only at the periphery of the group selection controversy.