Ecology 7th Edition by Manuel Molles

Exercise 16

Analyses such as Milne's comparison (1993) of bald eagles and barnacles demonstrate that organisms of different sizes interact with the environment at very different spatial scales. With this in mind consider the experiments of Diffendorfer and colleagues (1995) on the influence of habitat fragmentation on movement patterns of small mammals. Think about the size of their experimental study area (see fig. 21.10 ). How might a manipulation of this size have affected the movements of prairie birds How would their manipulation have affected the movements of ground-dwelling beetles