The effects of habitat preference, environmental heterogeneity, and inter-individual variation on fitness

Theory predicts that animals breeding in heterogeneous landscapes should select habitat likely to maximize individual fitness, but identifying the fine-scale environmental characteristics which influence habitat preference and affect fitness is often problematic. While many studies quantify relation...

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Main Author: Germain, Ryan Ross
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/54978