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2020-06-20
Mark Lewis, William Fagan, Marie Auger-Methe, Jacqueline Frair, John Fryxell, Claudius Gros, Eliezer Gurarie, Susan Healy, Jerod Merkle
Integrating diverse concepts from animal behavior, movement ecology, and machine learning, we develop an overview of the ecology of learning and animal movement. Learning-based movement is clearly relevant to ecological problems, but the subject is rooted firmly in psychology, including a...
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2020-05-19
Stephanie J. Peacock, Martin Krkošek, Mark A. Lewis, Péter K. Molnár
Migrations allow animals to track seasonal changes in resources, find mates, and avoid harsh climates, but these regular, longdistance movements also have implications for parasite dynamics and animal health. Migratory animals have been dubbed “superspreaders” of infection, but migration can also...
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Anthropogenic influence on the autumn migration of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in Hudson Bay
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Migratory species may shift established spatiotemporal patterns in response to anthropogenic impacts, so understanding the energetic consequences of behavioural plasticity may provide insight into how effectively migratory species respond to climate change. I used satellite telemetry to examine...
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Factors Influencing Bioacoustically Derived Arrival Timing of Three Migrant Bird Species in the Western Boreal Forest
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Habitat alteration is the leading cause of bird population declines globally. Therefore, understanding the processes influencing habitat selection are important for the identification and protection of important areas for birds. Long-distance migrant birds are particularly vulnerable and are...
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Food availability and grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) selection of post-fire and thinned forests in the mountain national parks of Canada
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Human-caused mortality and habitat loss have led to the extirpation of grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) across much of their North American range. Today, these factors continue to limit extant grizzly bear populations as productive habitats often occur in areas with elevated mortality risk creating...
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2015-01-01
Short-term and long-term population growth rates can differ considerably. While changes in growth rates can be driven by external factors, we consider another source for changes in growth rate. That is, changes are generated internally by gradual modification of population structure. Such...
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Influence of nutrition on the habitat selection of the Ronald Lake wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) herd
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Acquiring food is a key component of what it means to be an animal. A significant portion of any animal’s life is spent locating, acquiring, consuming, and digesting food. Nearly every aspect of their life is influenced by it. The nutritional quality varies depending on foraging strategy and is a...
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Linking partial migration to endo- and ectoparasite infection of collared and uncollared elk (Cervus canadensis)
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Ungulate ecology studies can focus on forage-predation interactions, but parasites also can have significant impacts on body condition, fecundity, and survival in ungulates. The effects of migration on parasite exposure are not well understood, but exposure may differ on allopatric summer ranges....
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Long-term changes in migratory patterns of elk (Cervus canadensis) in the southern Rocky Mountain Trench of British Columbia, Canada
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Migration can be described as a round-trip movement between distinct ranges and is thought to be a response to a spatiotemporal variation in resources. Large vertebrate herbivores such as ungulates often migrate to track seasonal variability in high quality forage and reduce predation risk....
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Spring 2020
Migration is a behavioral response to temporal variation in resources. While migration phenology is often predictable, phenology is expected to shift as climate change alters seasonal resource availability. We used data from satellite-linked telemetry collars on adult female polar bears (Ursus...