Inter-individual consistency in habitat selection patterns and spatial range constraints of female little bustards during the non-breeding season.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Identifying the factors that affect ranging behavior of animals is a central issue to ecology and an essential tool for designing effective conservation policies. This knowledge provides the information needed to predict the consequences of land-use change on species habitat use, especially in areas subject to major habitat transformations, such as agricultural landscapes. We evaluate inter-individual variation relative to environmental predictors and spatial constraints in limiting ranging behavior of female little bustards (Tetrax tetrax) in the non-breeding season. Our analyses were based on 11 females tracked with GPS during 5 years in northeastern Spain. We conducted deviance partitioning analyses based on different sets of generalized linear mixed models constructe

SUBMITTER: Cusco F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6280389 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature