The habitat functional response links seasonal third-order selection to second-order landscape characteristics

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Determining how animals respond to differences in resource availabilities across spatiotemporal extents is critical to our understanding of organism distributions. Variations in resource distribution leading to changes in spatial arrangements across landscapes are indicative of a habitat functional response. Our goal was to assess how resource availabilities influenced both second-order (i.e., home ranging behavior) and third-order (i.e., habitat or resource selection) selection by feral pigs (Sus scrofa) in an agricultural landscape. We defined agriculturally based seasons to estimate home range characteristics using autocorrelated kernel density estimation within each season. We then modeled home range size as a function of resource availability (i.e., resource selection analyses) to determine whether individual behaviors were predicted by shifts in home ranging behavior. Both home range analyses and resource selection analyses indicated seasonal differences in selection for agricultural resources as availabilities changed, suggesting second- and third-order selection is mechanistically linked through a habitat functional response.

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Paolini, K. E., Strickland, B. K., Tegt, J. L., VerCauteren, K. C., & Street, G. M. (2019). The habitat functional response links seasonal third-order selection to second-order landscape characteristics. Ecology and Evolution, 9(8), 4683–4691. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5072

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