Browsing Theses by Supervisor "Broders, Hugh"
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The importance of long-term capture-mark-recapture archives for wildlife monitoring and research: Two examples from bat populations
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-05)Long-term capture-mark-recapture (CMR) projects provide useful data to study and monitor wildlife. Specifically, CMR data can help identify how an animal interacts with its environment and how these interactions change ... -
Long-term decline in bat activity using passive acoustic monitoring and an equipment correction factor in Nova Scotia, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-28)Passive acoustic monitoring has grown in popularity as a technique to assess changes in activity levels of various taxa. However, there are few long-term and large-scale acoustic monitoring programs due to the current ... -
The role of social preferences in the organization of a gregarious mammal colony
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-02)Social preferences are often demonstrated to exist in “intelligent”, long-lived species, such as cetaceans and primates, where individuals have the opportunity to form relationships with conspecifics through repeated ... -
Roost Selection and Mass Variation Patterns of Temperate Bats in Eastern Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-23)Animals are expected to adjust their resource selection and behavioural patterns to improve fitness outcomes, such as fecundity or offspring survival. For long-lived hibernators, decisions made in each annual cycle may ... -
Stable Isotope Ecology of Tropical Bats
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-12)Stable isotopes have been used to characterize differences in animal diet and behaviour since experimental studies by DeNiro and Epstein (1979; 1981). Examining isotopic ratios enables researchers to track how animals ...