Quantifying consistent individual differences in habitat selection
Habitat selection is a fundamental behaviour that links individuals to the resources required for survival and reproduction. Although natural selection acts on an individual’s phenotype, research on habitat selection often pools inter-individual patterns to provide inferences on the population scale...
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ftunivquebecchic:oai:constellation.uqac.ca:9553 2023-11-12T04:27:44+01:00 Quantifying consistent individual differences in habitat selection Leclerc, Martin Vander Wal, Eric Zedrosser, Andreas Swenson, Jon E. Kindberg, Jonas Pelletier, Fanie 2016-03-23 application/pdf https://constellation.uqac.ca/id/eprint/9553/1/s00442-015-3500-6.pdf https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-015-3500-6 en eng https://constellation.uqac.ca/id/eprint/9553/ http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1007/s00442-015-3500-6 doi:10.1007/s00442-015-3500-6 https://constellation.uqac.ca/id/eprint/9553/1/s00442-015-3500-6.pdf Leclerc Martin, Vander Wal Eric, Zedrosser Andreas, Swenson Jon E., Kindberg Jonas et Pelletier Fanie. (2016). Quantifying consistent individual differences in habitat selection. Oecologia, 180, p. 697-705. cc_by Biologie et autres sciences connexes functional response personality repeatability Ursus arctos Article publié dans une revue avec comité d'évaluation Évalué par les pairs 2016 ftunivquebecchic https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-015-3500-6 2023-10-28T22:13:37Z Habitat selection is a fundamental behaviour that links individuals to the resources required for survival and reproduction. Although natural selection acts on an individual’s phenotype, research on habitat selection often pools inter-individual patterns to provide inferences on the population scale. Here, we expanded a traditional approach of quantifying habitat selection at the individual level to explore the potential for consistent individual differences of habitat selection. We used random coefficients in resource selection functions (RSFs) and repeatability estimates to test for variability in habitat selection. We applied our method to a detailed dataset of GPS relocations of brown bears (Ursus arctos) taken over a period of 6 years, and assessed whether they displayed repeatable individual differences in habitat selection toward two habitat types: bogs and recent timber-harvest cut blocks. In our analyses, we controlled for the availability of habitat, i.e. the functional response in habitat selection. Repeatability estimates of habitat selection toward bogs and cut blocks were 0.304 and 0.420, respectively. Therefore, 30.4 and 42.0 % of the population-scale habitat selection variability for bogs and cut blocks, respectively, was due to differences among individuals, suggesting that consistent individual variation in habitat selection exists in brown bears. Using simulations, we posit that repeatability values of habitat selection are not related to the value and significance of β estimates in RSFs. Although individual differences in habitat selection could be the results of non-exclusive factors, our results illustrate the evolutionary potential of habitat selection. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ursus arctos Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC): Constellation Oecologia 180 3 697 705 |
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Habitat selection is a fundamental behaviour that links individuals to the resources required for survival and reproduction. Although natural selection acts on an individual’s phenotype, research on habitat selection often pools inter-individual patterns to provide inferences on the population scale. Here, we expanded a traditional approach of quantifying habitat selection at the individual level to explore the potential for consistent individual differences of habitat selection. We used random coefficients in resource selection functions (RSFs) and repeatability estimates to test for variability in habitat selection. We applied our method to a detailed dataset of GPS relocations of brown bears (Ursus arctos) taken over a period of 6 years, and assessed whether they displayed repeatable individual differences in habitat selection toward two habitat types: bogs and recent timber-harvest cut blocks. In our analyses, we controlled for the availability of habitat, i.e. the functional response in habitat selection. Repeatability estimates of habitat selection toward bogs and cut blocks were 0.304 and 0.420, respectively. Therefore, 30.4 and 42.0 % of the population-scale habitat selection variability for bogs and cut blocks, respectively, was due to differences among individuals, suggesting that consistent individual variation in habitat selection exists in brown bears. Using simulations, we posit that repeatability values of habitat selection are not related to the value and significance of β estimates in RSFs. Although individual differences in habitat selection could be the results of non-exclusive factors, our results illustrate the evolutionary potential of habitat selection. |
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https://constellation.uqac.ca/id/eprint/9553/ http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1007/s00442-015-3500-6 doi:10.1007/s00442-015-3500-6 https://constellation.uqac.ca/id/eprint/9553/1/s00442-015-3500-6.pdf Leclerc Martin, Vander Wal Eric, Zedrosser Andreas, Swenson Jon E., Kindberg Jonas et Pelletier Fanie. (2016). Quantifying consistent individual differences in habitat selection. Oecologia, 180, p. 697-705. |
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