Publications by authors named "Emily Gelzer"
Article Synopsis
- Site fidelity, or the tendency of animals to return to familiar locations, can result from various factors such as memory, habitat preference, or chance.
- The authors propose a new definition of site fidelity that focuses on return patterns that differ from what would be expected if animals were moving randomly without memory.
- Their study uses simulations to demonstrate that both movement traits and landscape features greatly influence these return patterns and outlines a method for establishing specific null expectations for site fidelity in ecological research.
