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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"occupancy surveys"”.
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Habitat Selection, Dispersal and Detectability of Cobblestone Tiger Beetles (Cicindela marginipennis Dejean) along the Genesee River, New York
… in most cobblestone tiger beetle literature. My surveys examined two levels of detection probability - individual-level (the probability of detecting an individual cobblestone tiger beetle in a population on a single cobble bar) and site-level (the probability of detecting a single cobblestone …
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Occupancy dynamics, personality, & behavior of Franklin's Ground Squirrel in agricultural landscapes
… area, and connectivity on patterns of site occupancy and extinction for P. franklinii at the landscape scale. While many methods are used to measure connectivity, debate about which metrics are preferred for applied conservation issues is ongoing. Thus, while investigating occupancy dynamics …
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Habitat, landscape, and climate effects on riparian predator-prey interactions in a human-dominated ecosystem
… in three seasons. In summer 2012, I performed occupancy surveys for mink and concurrently measured crayfish densities and habitat features in 59 stream segments in east-central Illinois. Occupancy modeling showed that mink selected locations based directly on high prey concentrations instead of …
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Conservation ecology of the Cape clawless otter, Aonyx capensis, in an urban environment
… living on the Cape Peninsula. I use sign-based occupancy surveys to determine both broad and fine scale drivers of otter presence within the Peninsula's river systems and predicted that otters would avoid densely populated urban areas and rivers or sections thereof that are heavily transformed …