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2016-09-01

Auger‐Méthé, Marie, Derocher, Andrew E, DeMars, Craig A, Plank, Michael J, Codling, Edward A., Lewis, Mark A, Fryxell, John

Searching allows animals to find food, mates, shelter and other resources essential for survival and reproduction and is thus among the most important activities performed by animals. Theory predicts that animals will use random search strategies in highly variable and unpredictable environments....

2007

Ciarniello, L. M., Heard, D. C., Boyce, M. S., Seip, D. R.

The purpose of our study is to show how ecologists' interpretation of habitat selection by grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) is altered by the scale of observation and also how management questions would be best addressed using predetermined scales of analysis. Using resource selection functions (RSF)...

2016-01-01

Avgar, Tal, Potts, Jonathan R., Lewis, Mark A., Boyce, Mark S.

A resource selection function is a model of the likelihood that an available spatial unit will be used by an animal, given its resource value. But how do we appropriately define availability? Step selection analysis deals with this problem at the scale of the observed positional data, by matching...

1994

Larsen, K. W., Boutin, S.

Movement and settlement patterns of animal offspring, along with the costs of occupying familiar and unfamiliar habitats, have been inferred frequently, but rarely have they been documented directly. To obtain such information, we monitored the individual fates of 205 (94%) of the 219 offspring...

2015-01-01

Andrew W. Bateman, Mark A. Lewis, Gabriella Gall, Marta B. Manser, Tim H. Clutton-Brock

These were data used to fit home-range models for meerkat social groups. Data are provided as comma-separated variables, within directories in a zip file.