Spectrum of selection: New approaches to detecting the scale-dependent response to habitat

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1634-1640

  Mayor, S J ^a,b   Schaefer, J A ^c   Schneider, D C ^a   Mahoney, S P ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal behavior; Blocked quadrat variance; Continuum; Habitat selection; Hierarchy; Landscape ecology; Rangifer tarandus; Scale; Semivariance; Spatial heterogeneity; Spatial pattern analysis

Indexed keywords

DEER; DETECTION METHOD; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; LICHEN; PATCHINESS; SELECTION; SNOW; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; WINTER; WOODLAND;

ANIMALIA; CLADONIA; RANGIFER TARANDUS; RANGIFER TARANDUS CARIBOU;

SNOW;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; LICHENS; PHYSIOLOGY; REINDEER; SEASON;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; LICHENS; REINDEER; SEASONS; SNOW; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34548460829     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1672.1     Document Type: Article

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