When Good Animals Love Bad Habitats: Ecological Traps and the Conservation of Animal Populations

By J. Battin. 2004

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Assessments of habitat preferences and quality depend on spatial scale and metrics of fitness (2007, background): “Habitat choices in some cases may indeed be maladaptive, particularly in human-altered environments where habitat cues have become decoupled from historic outcomes (Kokko & Sutherland 2001; Battin 2004; Bock & Jones 2004; Robertson & Hutto 2006).”
Behavior of yellowfin (Thunnus albacares) and bigeye (T. obesus) tuna in a network of fish aggregating devices (FADs) (2007, background): “Ecological traps can result from subtle but rapid anthropogenic alteration of habitat (Battin 2004).”
Someplace like home: Experience, habitat selection and conservation biology (2007, background): “Similarly, the literature on ‘ecological traps’ suggests that animals responding to indirect cues may end up settling in low quality habitats, even when higher quality habitats exist in the same landscape (Kokko and Sutherland, 2001; Kristan, 2003; Battin, 2004).”
The relationship between local extinctions of grassland butterflies and increased soil nitrogen levels (2006, result): “…than we did, Krauss et al. (2003) found significant effects of site area but not of isolation on butterfly species turnover, but other studies have demonstrated the importance of connectivity for butterfly species richness (Bergman et al., 2004; E. Öckinger and H.G. Smith, unpublished data).”
The Value of Animal Behavior in Evaluations of Restoration Success (2008, background): “Ecological traps may be particularly common in human-modified landscapes (Battin 2004).”
The impact of fox control on the relative abundance of forest mammals in East Gippsland, Victoria (2009, background): “This means that expanding the area over which foxes are controlled, and intensifying the frequency of control, may increase the broader area of lower fox abundance at a considerable distance from the core baited area, resulting in an ‘ecological trap’ for foxes (Battin 2004).”
Landscape modification and habitat fragmentation: a synthesis (2007, background): “Degraded habitat may constitute an ‘ecological trap’ to which individuals of a species are attracted but in which they cannot reproduce (Battin, 2004).”
Evolutionary and ecological traps for brown bears Ursus arctos in human‐modified landscapes (2018, background): “Traps may also occur at a variety of scales (Battin 2004b, Hale & Swearer 2016), from landscape and within- patch levels, including edge effects at the boundary of protected areas (Loveridge et al. 2017), to small- scale site selection, such as the selection of dens and feeding sites.”
Blood parameters as indicators of physiological condition and skeletal development in great tits (Parus major): natural variation and application in the reproductive ecology of birds (2007, background): “In the worst case, when changes within a landscape are fast, organisms may not be able to respond fast enough and retain their preference for such habitats (reviewed in Battin 2004; Robertson & Hutto 2006).”
MEASURING HABITAT QUALITY: A REVIEW (2007, background): “…rich habitats (Rapport 1991, Railsback et al. 2003), including incomplete information (Shochat et al. 2002, Stamps et al. 2005), ecological traps (Battin 2004), time lags and site fidelity (Davis and Stamps 2004), strong despotic distributions (Parker and Sutherland 1986), a lack of high-quality…”
Use of resistance surfaces for landscape genetic studies: considerations for parameterization and analysis (2010, background): “Animals may select poor habitats (Battin 2004), disperse through poor habitats if the movement occurs within a single generation (Haddad & Tewksbury 2005), or may have evolved traits correlated with increased dispersal that might persist despite landscape change.”
Plastic and marine turtles: a review and call for research (2016, background): “This spatial overlap potentially creates an ecological trap for young turtles (Carr, 1987; Tomás et al., 2002; Battin, 2004; Witherington et al., 2012; Cózar et al., 2014).”
What is an edge species? The implications of sensitivity to habitat edges (2010, positive): “Edges have long been associated with increased predation and parasitism (Chalfoun et al. 2002), although species often congregate at edges despite higher predation rates (Battin 2004).”
Drifting fish aggregation devices could act as an ecological trap for tropical tuna species (2008, positive): “…of low quality habitat will be compensated for by the fish choosing areas of high quality habitat (once the preferred habitat is filled up, the remaining individuals are forced to settle in the inferior habitat; Battin 2004).”