Data from: Drivers of site fidelity in ungulates
While the tendency to return to previously visited locations – termed 'site fidelity' – is common in animals, the cause of this behaviour is not well understood. One hypothesis is that site fidelity is shaped by an animal's environment, such that animals living in landscapes with pred...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:4421731 2024-09-09T18:56:37+00:00 Data from: Drivers of site fidelity in ungulates Morrison, Thomas Merkel, Jerod Hopcraft, J. Grant Aikens, Ellen Beck, Jeffrey Boone, Randall Courtemanch, Alyson Dwinnell, Samantha Fairbanks, Sue Griffith, Brad Middleton, Arthur Monteith, Kevin Oates, Brendan Riotte-Lambert, Louise Sawyer, Hall Smith, Kurt Stabach, Jared Taylor, Kaitlyn Kauffman, Matthew 2021-01-06 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.31zcrjdjr unknown Zenodo https://zenodo.org/communities/dryad https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.31zcrjdjr oai:zenodo.org:4421731 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode familiarity info:eu-repo/semantics/other 2021 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.31zcrjdjr 2024-07-26T17:59:40Z While the tendency to return to previously visited locations – termed 'site fidelity' – is common in animals, the cause of this behaviour is not well understood. One hypothesis is that site fidelity is shaped by an animal's environment, such that animals living in landscapes with predictable resources have stronger site fidelity. Site fidelity may also be conditional on the success of animals' recent visits to that location, and it may become stronger with age as the animal accumulates experience in their landscape. Finally, differences between species, such as the way memory shapes site attractiveness, may interact with environmental drivers to modulate the strength of site fidelity. We compared inter-year site fidelity in 669 individuals across eight ungulate species fitted with GPS-collars and occupying a range of environmental conditions in North America and Africa. We used a distance-based index of site fidelity and tested hypothesized drivers of site fidelity using linear mixed effects models, while accounting for variation in annual range size. Mule deer Odocoileus hemionus and moose Alces alces exhibited relatively strong site fidelity, while wildebeest Connochaetes taurinus and barren-ground caribou Rangifer tarandus granti had relatively weak fidelity. Site fidelity was strongest in predictable landscapes where vegetative greening occurred at regular intervals (i.e. high temporal contingency). Species differed in their response to spatial heterogeneity in greenness (i.e. spatial constancy). Site fidelity varied seasonally in some species, but remained constant over time in others. Elk employed a 'win-stay, lose-switch' strategy, in which successful resource tracking in the springtime resulted in strong site fidelity the following spring. Site fidelity did not vary with age in any species tested. Our results provide support for the environmental hypothesis, particularly that regularity in vegetative phenology shapes the strength of site fidelity. Large unexplained differences in site fidelity suggests ... Other/Unknown Material Alces alces caribou Rangifer tarandus Zenodo |
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While the tendency to return to previously visited locations – termed 'site fidelity' – is common in animals, the cause of this behaviour is not well understood. One hypothesis is that site fidelity is shaped by an animal's environment, such that animals living in landscapes with predictable resources have stronger site fidelity. Site fidelity may also be conditional on the success of animals' recent visits to that location, and it may become stronger with age as the animal accumulates experience in their landscape. Finally, differences between species, such as the way memory shapes site attractiveness, may interact with environmental drivers to modulate the strength of site fidelity. We compared inter-year site fidelity in 669 individuals across eight ungulate species fitted with GPS-collars and occupying a range of environmental conditions in North America and Africa. We used a distance-based index of site fidelity and tested hypothesized drivers of site fidelity using linear mixed effects models, while accounting for variation in annual range size. Mule deer Odocoileus hemionus and moose Alces alces exhibited relatively strong site fidelity, while wildebeest Connochaetes taurinus and barren-ground caribou Rangifer tarandus granti had relatively weak fidelity. Site fidelity was strongest in predictable landscapes where vegetative greening occurred at regular intervals (i.e. high temporal contingency). Species differed in their response to spatial heterogeneity in greenness (i.e. spatial constancy). Site fidelity varied seasonally in some species, but remained constant over time in others. Elk employed a 'win-stay, lose-switch' strategy, in which successful resource tracking in the springtime resulted in strong site fidelity the following spring. Site fidelity did not vary with age in any species tested. Our results provide support for the environmental hypothesis, particularly that regularity in vegetative phenology shapes the strength of site fidelity. Large unexplained differences in site fidelity suggests ... |
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Morrison, Thomas Merkel, Jerod Hopcraft, J. Grant Aikens, Ellen Beck, Jeffrey Boone, Randall Courtemanch, Alyson Dwinnell, Samantha Fairbanks, Sue Griffith, Brad Middleton, Arthur Monteith, Kevin Oates, Brendan Riotte-Lambert, Louise Sawyer, Hall Smith, Kurt Stabach, Jared Taylor, Kaitlyn Kauffman, Matthew |
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