Accounting for Fitness: Combining Survival and Selection when Assessing Wildlife-Habitat Relationships
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Accounting for Fitness: Combining Survival and Selection When Assessing Wildlife–habitat Relationships
Assessing the viability of a population requires understanding of the resources used by animals to determine how those resources affect long-term population persistence. To understand the true importance of resources, one must consider both selection (where a species occurs) and fitness (reproduction and survival) associated with the use of those resources. Failure to do so may result in incorr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1565-9801,2224-4662
DOI: 10.1560/ijee.54.3-4.389