عنوان

Fine-Scale Movements and Habitat Selection of Eastern Wild Turkeys in Mississippi

Number

TL52597

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Fine-Scale Movements and Habitat Selection of Eastern Wild Turkeys in Mississippi

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Almond, John Conner

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Wang, Guiming

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Mississippi State University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2020

Text of Note

74 p.

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

M.S.

Body granting the degree

Mississippi State University

Text preceding or following the note

2020

Text of Note

An important theme of wildlife ecology is understanding how animals move through their landscapes and inferring the strategies of resource acquisition. Eastern wild turkeys (Meleagris gallapavo silvestris) are a model species for evaluating the responses of movements and habitat selection to spatiotemporal variability of resources. I hypothesized that scales of area-restricted search (ARS) would change with variation in the landscape. I identified the ARS locations of high first passage time values using segmentation algorithms and hidden Markov models, and evaluated spatial variations in habitat selection for foraging-like activities of wild turkeys using Dirichlet multinomial models. The ARS scale for daily movement paths did not change over time substantially. Wild turkeys placed home ranges in heterogeneous landscapes to maximize forage availability. However, continuous-time Markov chain models demonstrated that habitat selection varied between individuals indicating that fine-scale selection may depend on the local resource availability and status of individuals.

Subject Term

Wildlife conservation

Subject Term

Wildlife management

Almond, John Conner

Wang, Guiming

Mississippi State University

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[Thesis]

276903

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