Multiscale Burrow Site Selection of Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) in Coastal Sand Dune Habitat

摘要: ABSTRACT Lau, A. and Dodd, C.K., Jr., 2015. Multiscale burrow site selection of gopher tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) in coastal sand dune habitat. The tortoise is a keystone species upland sandhill ecosystems the SE United States, its habitat requirements have been well documented. Few studies conducted on populations that occur dunes. Because close proximately to ocean highly fragmented linear habitat, are affected by unique landscape factors not observed contiguous populations. In this study, was quantitatively modeled. Significant biological, environmental, anthropogenic may influence at fine coarse spatial scales were identified. Land cover type, distance edge, soil resistance, percentage herbaceous cover, slope angle, number burrows ...