Basic Principles
In the simplest form of the word, a place where an organism lives.
What is a habitat?
At the organism side, the response depicts the influence of landscape on dispersing individuals; at the landscape side it shows the number of individuals produced or received in a habitat patch.
What is connectivity?
This term describes a set of species and all the trophic or mutualistic links among them. It is used to compare groups between different environments.
What is interaction network?
The way an animal uses the biological resources in its environment. Foraging, covering, nesting, escape, and denning are all examples of this.
This form of connectivity is based on the spatial configuration of habitat patches and corridors, without directly considering how animals behave in response to them.
What is structural connectivity?
More common species encounter each other more often. This population property strongly influences interaction frequencies.
What is species abundance?
Innate decisions and habits drive this. Foraging ability, quantity, and quality as well as cover availability play into this.
What is "habitat selection"?
This type of connectivity describes how the actual movements and behavior of animals interact with landscape elements, rather than just how patches are physically arranged.
What is functional connectivity?
This term represents the change in species' densities over time or space. This occurs because some species are better suited in certain environments (bug die out in the winter, but thrive in the spring and summer).
What is species turnover?
A habitat is an area that produces this due to the presence of specific resources and conditions.
What is occupancy?
Defined by the scale at which an organism perceives and responds to habitat and matrix heterogeneity, it is a key determinant of dispersal and therefore connectivity.
What is functional grain?
The gradual change in a non-living (abiotic) factor, temperature, light, moisture, and elevation are all examples of this term.
What are environmental gradients?
A type of selection based on the home range of an individual or group within their geographical range. This is one of the four types of selection orders
What is Second-Order Selection?
Boldness or activity level can influence dispersal and thus connectivity; these traits are often referred to by this term.
What are behavioral syndromes?
What are animal personalities?
This term measures the patters of interactions between a species' change over time. (how two different food webs change due to a similar change, both may have an increase in producers)
What is interaction turnover?