Exploring Habitat Selection by Wildlife withadehabitat

Teaching animal habitat selection using wildlife tracking equipment

We present a hands-on outdoor activity coupled with classroom discussion to teach students about wildlife habitat selection, the process by which animals choose where to live. By selecting locations or habitats with many benefits (e.g., food, shelter, mates) and few costs (e.g., predators), animals improve their ability to survive and reproduce. Biologists track animal movement using radio tele...

Exploratory Analysis of the Habitat Selection by the Wildlife in R: the adehabitatHS Package

3 Design I studies 8 3.1 Basic approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.2 The general framework for the statistical exploration of the niche 10 3.2.1 Presentation of the GNESFA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.2.2 A preliminary dudi.* analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.2.3 The FANTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3.2.4 The MADIFA and...

Vermont Wildlife Linkage Habitat Analysis

The Wildlife Habitat Response Model : A Tool for Estimating Terrestrial Wildlife Habitat Responses to Fuel Treatments

This paper describes the Wildlife Habitat Response Model (WHRM), a web-based computer tool for evaluating potential effects of fuel reduction projects on terrestrial wildlife habitats in dry coniferous forests of the western United States. WHRM uses species-habitat associations to predict how fuel treatments may affect species habitat suitability. Users input the amount of change in forest floo...

Invasive Plants and Wildlife Habitat Invasive Plants and Wildlife Habitat Non-Native Plants and Wildlife in the Intermountain West

Non-native plant invasions can change communities and ecosystems by altering the structure and composition of native vegetation. Changes in native plant communities caused by non-native plants can influence native wildlife species in diverse ways, but the outcomes and underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Here, we review and synthesize current information for the Intermountain West of th...