Habitat quality influences trade-offs in animal movement along the exploration-exploitation continuum.

ABSTRACT: To successfully establish itself in a novel environment, an animal must make an inherent trade-off between knowledge accumulation and exploitation of knowledge gained (i.e., the exploration-exploitation dilemma). To evaluate how habitat quality affects the spatio-temporal scale of switching between exploration and exploitation during home range establishment, we conducted experimental trials comparing resource selection and space-use of translocated animals to those of reference individuals using reciprocal translocations between habitat types of differing quality. We selected wild pigs (Sus scrofa) as a model species to investigate hypotheses related to the movement behavior of translocated individuals because they are globally distributed large mammals that are often translocated within

SUBMITTER: Smith JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10039022 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature