The role of habitat configuration in shaping animal population processes: a framework to generate quantitative predictions.

ABSTRACT: By shaping where individuals move, habitat configuration can fundamentally structure animal populations. Yet, we currently lack a framework for generating quantitative predictions about the role of habitat configuration in modulating population outcomes. To address this gap, we propose a modelling framework inspired by studies using networks to characterize habitat connectivity. We first define animal habitat networks, explain how they can integrate information about the different configurational features of animal habitats, and highlight the need for a bottom-up generative model that can depict realistic variations in habitat potential connectivity. Second, we describe a model for simulating animal habitat networks (available in the R package AnimalHabitatNetwork), and demonstrate its abi

SUBMITTER: He P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8292241 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature