Habitat selection by American beaver at multiple spatial scales

Habitat selection by American beaver at multiple spatial scales

Abstract Background Semiaquatic mammals require both aquatic and terrestrial habitats, particularly interfaces between the two habitats. As ecosystem engineers, American beaver (Castor canadensis) consume and fell a great amount of deciduous trees. We tested the prediction that open water and amount...

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Main Authors: Guiming Wang, Lance F. McClintic, Jimmy D. Taylor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-05-01
Series:Animal Biotelemetry
Subjects:
Castor canadensis
Dirichlet-multinomial model
Second-order habitat selection
Spatial resource selection function
Third-order habitat selection
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40317-019-0172-8

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