Understanding the impact of human disturbance on breeding habitat selection endangered species is critical to improving their conservation. Blue-crowned Laughingthrush Pterorhinus courtoisi (Ménégaux, 1923) syn. Garrulax (Passeriformes: Leiotrichidae) an in China. To explore nesting and its response during period, we conducted a field survey at sites Wuyuan County Dexing City, Jiangxi Province,...

Species conservation requires a thorough understanding of habitat requirements. The northern Mexican gartersnake (Thamnophis eques megalops) was listed as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act in 2014. Natural resource managers are interested in understanding the ecology of this subspecies to guide management decisions and to determine what features are necessary for habitat creation...

Context. Nest-site selection can influence nesting success, and thus population dynamics, of many species of groundnesting birds. Despite the economic importance as a game species, populations of northern bobwhites have been declining throughout the southernUnited States. This paper reports the nesting ecology of northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) on Babcock-Webb Wildlife Management Area,...

Habitat use by mule deer was studied in the Mapimí Biosphere Reserve in the Chihuahuan Desert, Mexico. The deer population in this area is distributed among isolated hills and sierra. Because of their similar soil and vegetation characteristics, these hills are a homogeneous element of the landscape. This study was carried out within this element, in order to understand the habitat variables th...

Distribution and abundance patterns at the community and metacommunity scale can result from two distinct mechanisms. Random dispersal followed by non-random, site-specific mortality (species sorting) is the dominant paradigm in community ecology, while habitat selection provides an alternative, largely unexplored, mechanism with different demographic consequences. Rather than differential mort...

Animal habitat selection is an important and expansive area of research in ecology. In particular, the study of habitat selection is critical in habitat prioritization efforts for species of conservation concern. Landscape planning for species is happening at ever-increasing extents because of the appreciation for the role of landscape-scale patterns in species persistence coupled to improved d...