Model and data for: Economical defense of resources structures territorial space use in a cooperative carnivore ...
Manuscript Abstract: Ecologists have long sought to understand space use and mechanisms underlying patterns observed in nature. We developed an optimality landscape and mechanistic territory model to understand mechanisms driving space use and compared model predictions to empirical reality. We demo...
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ftdatacite:10.5061/dryad.mpg4f4r1r 2024-02-04T09:59:30+01:00 Model and data for: Economical defense of resources structures territorial space use in a cooperative carnivore ... Sells, Sarah 2021 https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.mpg4f4r1r https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.mpg4f4r1r en eng Dryad https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5802243 Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode cc0-1.0 Behavior behavior ecology gray wolves mechanistic model optimality landscape territoriality Dataset dataset 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.mpg4f4r1r10.5281/zenodo.5802243 2024-01-05T01:14:15Z Manuscript Abstract: Ecologists have long sought to understand space use and mechanisms underlying patterns observed in nature. We developed an optimality landscape and mechanistic territory model to understand mechanisms driving space use and compared model predictions to empirical reality. We demonstrate our approach using gray wolves (Canis lupus). In the model, simulated animals selected territories to economically acquire resources by selecting patches with greatest value, accounting for benefits, costs, and tradeoffs of defending and using space on the optimality landscape. Our approach successfully predicted and explained first- and second-order space use of wolves, including the population’s distribution, territories of individual packs, and influences of prey density, competitor density, human-caused mortality risk, and seasonality. It accomplished this using simple behavioral rules and limited data to inform the optimality landscape. Results contribute evidence that economical territory selection ... : All details are provided in the Sells et al. Supplementary Information file. ... Dataset Canis lupus DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Manuscript Abstract: Ecologists have long sought to understand space use and mechanisms underlying patterns observed in nature. We developed an optimality landscape and mechanistic territory model to understand mechanisms driving space use and compared model predictions to empirical reality. We demonstrate our approach using gray wolves (Canis lupus). In the model, simulated animals selected territories to economically acquire resources by selecting patches with greatest value, accounting for benefits, costs, and tradeoffs of defending and using space on the optimality landscape. Our approach successfully predicted and explained first- and second-order space use of wolves, including the population’s distribution, territories of individual packs, and influences of prey density, competitor density, human-caused mortality risk, and seasonality. It accomplished this using simple behavioral rules and limited data to inform the optimality landscape. Results contribute evidence that economical territory selection ... : All details are provided in the Sells et al. Supplementary Information file. ... |
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