Holling meets habitat selection: functional response of large herbivores revisited.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Holling (Can Entomol 91(5):293-320, 1959) was the first to describe a functional response between a predator's consumption-rate and the density of its prey. The same concept can be applied to the habitat selection of herbivores, specifically, the change in relative habitat use with the change in habitat availability. Functional responses in habitat selection at a home-range scale have been reported for several large herbivores. However, a link to Holling's original functional response types has never been drawn, although it could replace the current phenomenological view with a more mechanistically based understanding of functional responses.

Methods

In this study, discrete choice models were implemented as mixed-effects baseline-category logit models to analyze t

SUBMITTER: Dupke C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8422736 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature