The role of habitat selection behavior in population dynamics: source–sink systems and ecological traps

Ecological traps, poor‐quality habitat that nonetheless attract individuals, have been observed in both natural and human‐altered settings. Until recently, ecological traps were considered a kind of source–sink system, but source–sink theory does not model maladaptive habitat choice, and therefore cannot accurately represent ecological traps or predict their population‐level consequences. Although recent models of ecological traps addressed this...