Using animal movement behavior to categorize land cover and predict consequences for connectivity and patch residence times

Brown, Leone M.;Fuda, Rebecca K.;Schtickzelle, Nicolas;Coffman;Crone, Elizabeth E.;et.al.
(2017) Landscape Ecology — p. 1-14 (2017)

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  • Brown, Leone M.Odum School of Ecology University of Georgia Athens USA
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  • Fuda, Rebecca K.Odum School of Ecology University of Georgia Athens USA
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  • Schtickzelle, NicolasUCLouvain
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  • CoffmanDepartment of Biology Butler University Indianapolis USA
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  • Jost, AudreyUCLouvain
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  • Crone, Elizabeth E.Department of Biology Tufts University Medford USA
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Context Landscape-scale population dynamics are driven in part by movement within and dispersal among habitat patches. Predicting these processes requires information about how movement behavior varies among land cover types. Objectives We investigated how butterfly movement in a heterogeneous landscape varies within and between habitat and matrix land cover types, and the implications of these differences for within-patch residence times and among-patch connectivity. Methods We empirically measured movement behavior in the Baltimore checkerspot butterfly (Euphydryas phaeton) in three land cover classes that broadly constitute habitat and two classes that constitute matrix. We also measured habitat preference at boundaries. We predicted patch residence times and interpatch dispersal using movement parameters estimated separately for each habitat and matrix land cover subclass (5 categories), or for combined habitat and combined matrix land cover classes (2 categories). We evaluated the effects of including edge behavior on all metrics.
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Brown, L. M., Fuda, R. K., Schtickzelle, N., Coffman, Jost, A., Kazberouk, A., Kemper, E., Sass, E., & Crone, E. E. (2017). Using animal movement behavior to categorize land cover and predict consequences for connectivity and patch residence times. Landscape Ecology, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-017-0533-8 (Original work published 2017)