Habitat Selection
Species that can use a wide range of resources (e.g. food, habitat types, etc)
What is a generalist?
Continually revisiting management strategies as you learn more?
What is adaptive management?
What is a focal/umbrella species?
The study of animal behavior
What is ethology?
Direct cause of behavior?
Geographic region, home range, territory
Changes in habitat selection/movement due to predator presence?
What is non-consumptive effects?
A species with a disproportionate impact on an ecosystem's function.
What is a keystone species?
Rearing the young of a vulnerable species by a common related species?
What is surrogacy/cross-fostering?
Indirect/evolutionary cause of a behavior.
What is an ultimate cause?
Factors that might reduce a habitat's carrying capacity?
What is resource availability variation?
What management strategy might you use to control an invasive species?
What is reduce food availability, etc?
Wildlife conservation strategy with the most bang for your buck
What is habitat management?
Reason why you are advised to keep smellable items away from your tent in bear country.
What is olfactory/smell cues?
Two ways to observe animal behavior for cheap/easy?
What are camera trapping/direct observation?
An animal selects an area with lower food quality, but better cover.
What is a trade-off?
Coarse woody debris is important for....
Number of individuals that survive to reproductive age, dependent on environmental factors and maternal nutrition
What is recruitment?
Olfactory chemical used by animals to communicate to conspecifics?
What are pheromones?
Two ways we can quantify behavior.
What are duration, latency, intensity?
Habitat characteristic that allows dispersal.
What is connectivity?
A species that serves as an ambassador for a particular ecosystem or cause?
Flagship species
To ensure that hunting is used properly as a management tool, consider these things.
What are demographics, vital rates, mortality causes, etc?
Unique sensory adaptations by some animals.
What are barometric pressure/magnetite for sense of direction, etc?
What are some pieces of information we can glean from a collared animal?