Habitat evaluation: do use/availability data reflect carrying capacity?

摘要: Evaluating the quality of habitat for wildlife is fundamentally important to decisions on land use. Habitat evaluation models are frequently based assumption that use/availability data correspond in some fashion carrying capacities habitats populations and correspondence independent realized population density. We believe may be misleading whenever resources not directly related their quantity. use a simple model illustrate ratios change as density changes have no relation capacity when resource quantity substitutable one another. advocate developing systems mechanistic understanding relations between acquisition by individuals dynamics