Movement Behavior of Wildlife: The Effect of Resource Distribution and Landscape Structure
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Wildlife".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 565
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wildlife conservation; human and wildlife interactions; climate change; wildlife
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In this Special Issue Book, we describe a large and complex research project aimed at addressing a variety of wildlife species, each with varying movement ecologies and resource needs. A rigorous species selection process was used in order to identify species that represented a broad array of biodiversity. We then studied how resource distribution and human developments influenced landscape structure and affected wildlife movement behaviors. State-of-the-art methods were used to assess resource selection, model movement behaviors, and provide a decision support framework. This research provides a real-life example of the methods that can be applied to assess wildlife movement behavior, including how research results can be used to evaluate and mitigate for the impacts of highways and other human developments.
Dr. William L. Gaines
Guest Editor
Lowell H. Suring
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- wildlife movement behavior
- resource selection
- landscape structure
- human features
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