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McIntyre, Nancy E., author Wiens, John A., advisor Wilson, Thomas (Tom) G., committee member Kondratieff, Boris C., committee member Hobbs, Nicholas Thompson (Tom), committee member 2007-01-03T05:44:42Z 2007-01-03T05:44:42Z 1998 1998_Spring_McIntyre_Nancy.pdf ETDF1998700046ECOL http://hdl.handle.net/10217/87747 https://doi.org/10.25675/3.024713 I combined observational studies with field experiments to investigate how landscape heterogeneity influences habitat selection in eleodid beetles of the shortgrass prairie of Colorado. I examined correlations in spatio-temporal patterns of habitat occupancy, population density, and community structure in eleodids with spatial and abiotic features of the landscape; I then explored how variations in spatial structure could affect how animals move through a landscape, accounting for the observed patterns of habitat occupancy. I combined these observations with experimental manipulations of several landscape features that affect the movement behaviors of beetles. The results from these experiments show how interactions among animal behavior, landscape composition and configuration, and the scale of spatial structure determine where animals occur in a heterogeneous environment. doctoral dissertations English eng Colorado State University. Libraries Catalog record number (MMS ID): 991004541339703361 QH541.15.L35.M25 1998 1980-1999 Stapp, Paul, SGS-LTER Live arthropod pitfall trapping across a double catena on the Central Plains Experimental Range, Nunn, Colorado, USA 1995-1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10217/83402 Copyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright. Landscape ecology Eleodes -- Habitat Spatial ecology Landscape heterogeneity at multiple scales: effects on movement patterns and habitat selection of eleodid beetles Text Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Doctoral Ecology Colorado State University This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights (https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/). You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). open.access