Hierarchy in Structuring of Resource Selection: Understanding Elk Selection Across Space, Time, and Movement Strategies.

ABSTRACT: Movement is a fundamental aspect of animal ecology that varies across space, time, and among individuals or groups within a population. Broad-scale patterns of animal movement are often classified into different movement strategies, such as resident, nomadic, or migratory. While landscape-level environmental patterns can predict the presence of different movement strategies in an area, elucidating how these patterns downscale to fine-scale resource selection behaviors remains a challenge. Partially migratory systems, where both migrants and residents coexist, offer a unique opportunity to address these questions. Using tracking data from four Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus canadensis) herds situated primarily within Colorado, USA, we assessed between-herd, seasonal, and within-herd vari

SUBMITTER: Crews S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11882307 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature