Using a data-constrained model of home range establishment to predict abundance in spatially heterogeneous habitats.

Mechanistic modelling approaches that explicitly translate from individual-scale resource selection to the distribution and abundance of a larger population may be better suited to predicting responses to spatially heterogeneous habitat alteration than commonly-used regression models. We developed a...

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Main Authors: Mark C Vanderwel, Jay R Malcolm, John P Caspersen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3398050?pdf=render