Habitat

Key Features: Food and water

  • source of energy and nutrients

  • Key source affecting:

    • Individual growth rates

    • survival and reproduction

    • population level

Key Features: Cover

  • Cover as shelter

    • alters birth and death rates by preventing loss of energy during environmental extremes

  • Cover as protection from predators

    • selection of habitat to avoid predators is a critically important endpoint of behavior for fish and wildlife populations