PSYC 304 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Great Tit, Mena, Common Blackbird
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Due to human use, many animals have lost their habitat. Habitat restoration and management: conservation tools that help rebuild or find new places for animals to live, data from zoos contributes to habitat restoration/management and vice versa. In some cases of territorial competition evenly matched individuals evaluate habitat quality and adjust territorial boundaries accordingly: male side-blotched lizards defend territories that contain rocks females use for basking and cover. Source habitat: an area where the population grows, the space that an animal occupies under ideal conditions, linked with reproductive success. Sink habitat: an area where the population declines. Individuals who are unable to find space in the source habitat are forced to live in a sink habitat. Depending on whether there are differences between individuals in their ability to defend resources we may get one of two possible distributions of forages among sites. Territoriality: animals defend the areas in which they breed.
