ArticleScientific reports2020
Shrub and vegetation cover predict resource selection use by an endangered species of desert lizard.
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- The influence of native shrub density on bird communities in the southern drylands of California, USA.BMC ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Controlled temperature contrasts of three native and one highly invasive annual plant species in California.PeerJ · 2025Article
- Sex and Age Differences in Habitat Selection of the Mountain Dragon Lizard (Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- The microclimatic effects of the native shrubFrontiers in plant science · 2024Article
- Parsing variance by marker type: Testing biogeographic hypotheses and differential contribution of historical processes to population structure in a desert lizard.Molecular ecology · 2023Article
- Shrub density effects on the presence of an endangered lizard of the Carrizo Plain National Monument, California.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Foundation plant species provide resilience and microclimatic heterogeneity in drylands.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Habitat heterogeneity affects the thermal ecology of an endangered lizard.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Shrubs as magnets for pollination: A test of facilitation and reciprocity in a shrub-annual facilitation system.Current research in insect science · 2021Article
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Abstract
Globally, no species is exempt from the constraints associated with limited available habitat or resources, and endangered species in particular warrant critical examination. In most cases, these species are restricted to limited locations, and the relative likelihood of resource use within the space they can access is important. Using Gambelia sila, one of the first vertebrate species listed as endangered, we used resource selection function analysis of telemetry and remotely sensed data to identity key drivers of selected versus available locations for this species in Carrizo Plain National Monument, USA. We examined the probability of selection given different resource types. Increasing shrub cover, lower and relatively more flat sites, increasing normalized difference vegetation index, and solar radiation all significantly predicted likelihood of observed selection within the area sampled. Imagery data were also validated with fine-scale field data showing that large-scale contrasts of selection relative to available location patterns for animal species are a useful lens for potential habitat. Key environmental infrastructure such as foundation plant species including shrubs or local differences in the physical attributes were relevant to this endangered species.
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