Species-specific variation in nesting and postfledging resource selection for two forest breeding migrant songbirds.

ABSTRACT: Habitat selection is a fundamental component of community ecology, population ecology, and evolutionary biology and can be especially important to species with complex annual habitat requirements, such as migratory birds. Resource preferences on the breeding grounds may change during the postfledging period for migrant songbirds, however, the degree to which selection changes, timing of change, and whether all or only a few species alter their resource use is unclear. We compared resource selection for nest sites and resource selection by postfledging juvenile ovenbirds (Seiurus aurocapilla) and Acadian flycatchers (Empidonax virescens) followed with radio telemetry in Missouri mature forest fragments from 2012-2015. We used Bayesian discrete choice modeling to evaluate support for local v

SUBMITTER: Jenkins JMA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5470712 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature