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| the number of individuals |
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| the nearness of a measurement to the actual value of the variable being measured; not synonymous with precision |
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| a group of species under study |
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| a complete enumeration of an entity |
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| the co-occurrence of individuals of several species during a specified time and space that are interacting and show some degree of inter-dependencies |
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| relative comparisons of grains separated by distance |
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| the number of individual per unit area |
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| the spread or scatter of an entity within its range |
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| the specific functions and interactions under study or potentially influencing the study (within an explicitly defined area |
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| the area over which observations are made and the duration of those observations |
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| the spatial and temporal resolution of observations, the smallest resolvable unit of study |
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| a group of species that exploit the same class of environmental resources in a similar way |
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| habitat (Morrison and Hall) |
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| the physical space within which the animal lives, and the abiotic and biotic entities |
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| habitat availability (Hall 97) |
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| the accessibility and procurability of physical and biological components in a habitat |
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| habitat avoidance (Morrison and Hall) |
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| an oxymoron that should not be used; wherever an animal occurs defines its habitat. |
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| microhabitat (mesohabitat)(Morrison and Hall) |
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| relative terms that refer to the grain size of the area over which habitat is being measured |
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| habitat preference (Morrison and Hall) |
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| used to describe the relative use of different locations (habitats) by an individual or species |
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| habitat quality (Morrison and Hall) |
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| the ability of an area to provide conditions appropriate for individual and population persistance |
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| habitat selection (Hall 1997) |
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| a hierarchical process involving a series of innate and learned (imprinting-Harrison) behavioral decisions made by an animal about what habitat it would use at different scales (spatial and temporal) of the environment. Quantified as use compared to availibility. |
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| the way an animal uses (or "consumes", in a generic sense) a collection of physical and biological entities in a habitat |
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| the area traversed by an animal during its activities during a specified period of time |
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| a spatially heterogeneous area used to describe features (stand type, soil, site etc.) of interest |
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| widespread or characteristic features within a landscape |
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| the level of organization revealed by observation at the scale under study |
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| strictly, a system of populations of a given species in a landscape linked by balanced rates of extinction and colonization. More loosely, the term is used for groups of populations of species, some of which go extinct while others are established, bu the entire system may not be in equilibrium |
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| any formal representation of the real world. A model may be conceptual, diagrammatic, mathematical, or computational. |
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| the estimation of model parameters from data |
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| the process of specifying a model structure |
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| comparison of a model's predictions to some user-chosen standard to assess if the model is suitable for its intended purpose. |
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| the demonstration that the model is formally correct |
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| the strength and frequency of interactions between individuals and entities (resources, other animals) in its habitat |
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| a recognizable area on the surface of the earth that contrasts with adjacent areas and has definable boundaries |
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| a collection of individuals |
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| the closeness to each other of repeated measurements of the some quantity |
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| the limits within which an entity operates or can be found |
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| the smallest spatial scale at which we portray discontinuities in biotic and abiotic factors in map form |
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| any biotic or abiotic factor directly used by an organism |
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| the absolute amount (or size or volume) of an item in an explicitly defined area |
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| a measure of the amount of a resource actually available to the animal (amount exploitable) |
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| the liklehood that a resource will be used if offered on an equal basis with others |
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| the process by which an animal chooses an resource |
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| a measure of the amount of resource taken directly (consumed, removed etc.) from an explicitly defined area |
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| the resolution at which patterns are measured, percieved, or represented. Scale can be broken into several components, including grain and extent |
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| the spatial and temporal scales at which observations are made. |
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| a process in which model parameters or other factors are varied in a controlled fashion |
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| in a landscape, a population or site that attracts colonists, while not supplying migrants to other sites or populations |
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| an area of uniform physical and biological properties and management status |
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| in a landscape, a population or a site that supplies colonists to other patches |
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| an arbitrary spatial extent chosen by the investigator within which to conduct a survey |
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| the spatial area defended (actively or passively) by an animal or group of animals |
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| strictly, the ability to live or grow. In conservation biology, the probability of survival of a population for an extended period of time |
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| the combination of all abiotic and biotic factors which determine the distribution and density of a self-sustaining population of organisms within a specified area, over a specified interval, and at a specified spatial-scale. |
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