Effects of the social environment on movement-integrated habitat selection.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Movement links the distribution of habitats with the social environment of animals using those habitats. Despite the links between movement, habitat selection, and socioecology, their integration remains a challenge due to lack of shared vocabulary across fields, methodological gaps, and the implicit (rather than explicit) historical development of theory in the fields of social and spatial ecology. Given these challenges can be addressed, opportunity for further study will provide insight about the links between social, spatial, and movement ecology. Here, our objective was to disentangle the roles of habitat selection and social association as drivers of movement in caribou (Rangifer tarandus).

Methods

To accomplish our objective, we modelled the relationship be

SUBMITTER: Webber Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11378598 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature