Seasonal Habitat Selection by American White Pelicans
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Areas and GPS Tracking of American White Pelicans
2.2. Land Use and Land Cover Data
2.3. Habitat Selection
2.3.1. Random-effect Dirichlet-multinomial Models for the Second-order Habitat Selection
2.3.2. Gaussian Markov Random Field Models for Third-order Habitat Selection
3. Results
4. Discussion
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
Appendix A
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Model | AICc | ΔAICc | K |
---|---|---|---|
water + wetland + woody | 37,590.47 | 0 | 6 |
wwater + wetland | 37,592.38 | 1.915401 | 5 |
water + woody | 37,716.91 | 126.4473 | 5 |
wetland + woody | 37,779.46 | 188.9995 | 5 |
woody | 37,813.3 | 222.8365 | 4 |
wetland | 37,781.11 | 190.6412 | 4 |
water | 37,716.91 | 126.4484 | 4 |
intercept only | 37,815.85 | 225.3841 | 3 |
Model | AICc | ΔAICc | K |
---|---|---|---|
water + wetland + woody | 27,593.15 | 0 | 6 |
water + wetland | 27,628.71 | 35.56 | 5 |
water + woody | 28,050.38 | 457.23 | 5 |
wetland + woody | 28,596.21 | 1003.06 | 5 |
woody | 29,042.93 | 1449.78 | 4 |
wetland | 28,613.78 | 1020.63 | 4 |
water | 28,064.95 | 471.80 | 4 |
intercept only | 29,047.45 | 1454.30 | 3 |
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Cunningham, F.L.; Wang, G.; King, D.T. Seasonal Habitat Selection by American White Pelicans. Diversity 2022, 14, 821. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14100821
Cunningham FL, Wang G, King DT. Seasonal Habitat Selection by American White Pelicans. Diversity. 2022; 14(10):821. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14100821
Chicago/Turabian StyleCunningham, Frederick L., Guiming Wang, and D. Tommy King. 2022. "Seasonal Habitat Selection by American White Pelicans" Diversity 14, no. 10: 821. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14100821
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