Null models confirm nest site fidelity by male smallmouth bass, Micropterus dolomieu.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many animals appear to preferentially renest in proximity to a site they previously occupied. Evidence of nest fidelity is often inferred from a right skewed distribution of distances between the nests of individuals that breed in two consecutive reproduction episodes, where many individuals nest some arbitrarily close distance to their prior nest and others, in the extended right tail of the distribution, nest far from the nest they previously occupied. Because right skewed distributions of inter-nest distances can arise even when individuals choose nest locations randomly, however, such inferences are prone to error. The importance of null models-used to generate patterns of individual inter-nest distances by processes that do not involve site attachment-for inferences

SUBMITTER: Wiegmann DD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11210175 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature