Landscape heterogeneity at multiple scales: effects on movement patterns and habitat selection of eleodid beetles

I combined observational studies with field experiments to investigate how landscape heterogeneity influences habitat selection in eleodid beetles of the shortgrass prairie of Colorado. I examined correlations in spatio-temporal patterns of habitat occupancy, population density, and community structure in eleodids with spatial and abiotic features of the landscape; I then explored how variations in spatial structure could affect how animals move through a landscape, accounting for the observed patterns of habitat occupancy. I combined these observations with experimental manipulations of several landscape features that affect the movement behaviors of beetles. The results from these experiments show how interactions among animal behavior, landscape composition and configuration, and the scale of spatial structure determine where animals occur in a heterogeneous environment.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Ecology

Grantor dc:publisher

Colorado State University. Libraries

Year dc:date.issued

1998

Authors dc:creator

• McIntyre, Nancy E., author
• Wiens, John A., advisor
• Wilson, Thomas (Tom) G., committee member
• Kondratieff, Boris C., committee member
• Hobbs, Nicholas Thompson (Tom), committee member

• Landscape ecology
• Eleodes -- Habitat
• Spatial ecology

Statement dc:rights

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Language dc:language.iso

eng, English

Identifier URI

https://doi.org/10.25675/3.024713

Identifier

ETDF1998700046ECOL

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:mountainscholar.org:10217/87747