General goals of conservation are to increase, maintain, or slow decline of a target population, ... more General goals of conservation are to increase, maintain, or slow decline of a target population, but each species has a particularly sensitive life stage or process that determines or regulates the number of individuals (e.g. recruitment). An individual’s fitness is directly related to the quality of the habitat that they select. Therefore, an understanding of breeding habitat selection would lead to more successful conservation of these recruitment-limited populations. Breeding habitat selection studies tend to focus on the phenomenon (where individuals settle), instead of the mechanism behind the settling decision. However, the ideal free distribution (IFD) theory can describe these settling mechanism over a time series. The IFD has been applied to numerous taxa, but has not yet been tested on amphibian populations, which are generally recruitmentlimited and are experiencing global declines. Here, I argue that incorporating existing ecological theory, specifically the IFD, into co...
General goals of conservation are to increase, maintain, or slow decline of a target population, ... more General goals of conservation are to increase, maintain, or slow decline of a target population, but each species has a particularly sensitive life stage or process that determines or regulates the number of individuals (e.g. recruitment). An individual’s fitness is directly related to the quality of the habitat that they select. Therefore, an understanding of breeding habitat selection would lead to more successful conservation of these recruitment-limited populations. Breeding habitat selection studies tend to focus on the phenomenon (where individuals settle), instead of the mechanism behind the settling decision. However, the ideal free distribution (IFD) theory can describe these settling mechanism over a time series. The IFD has been applied to numerous taxa, but has not yet been tested on amphibian populations, which are generally recruitmentlimited and are experiencing global declines. Here, I argue that incorporating existing ecological theory, specifically the IFD, into co...
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