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SUBMITTER: Hale R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4760169 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hale Robin R Swearer Stephen E SE
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20160201 1824
Ecological traps, which occur when animals mistakenly prefer habitats where their fitness is lower than in other available habitats following rapid environmental change, have important conservation and management implications. Empirical research has focused largely on assessing the behavioural effects of traps, by studying a small number of geographically close habitat patches. Traps, however, have also been defined in terms of their population-level effects (i.e. as preferred habitats of suffic ...[more]