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Time geography and wildlife home range delineation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Funding for this work was provided by Canada’s Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and GEOIDE through the Government of Canada’s Networks of Centres of Excellence program.We introduce a new technique for delineating animal home ...
Long, J.A., Nelson, T.A.
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Toward an identification of resources influencing habitat use in a multi-specific context. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2011
Interactions between animal behaviour and the environment are both shaping observed habitat use. Despite the importance of inter-specific interactions on the habitat use performed by individuals, most previous analyses have focused on case studies of ...
Emmanuelle Richard   +3 more
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The Seabed Makes the Dolphins: Physiographic Features Shape the Size and Structure of the Bottlenose Dolphin Geographical Units

open access: yesJournal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022
The common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) is a cosmopolitan delphinid, regularly present in the Mediterranean Sea. According to previous studies, this dolphin tends to form resident geographical units scattered on the continental shelf.
Guido Gnone   +24 more
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Home on the Range: Factors Explaining Partial Migration of African Buffalo in a Tropical Environment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Partial migration (when only some individuals in a population undertake seasonal migrations) is common in many species and geographical contexts. Despite the development of modern statistical methods for analyzing partial migration, there have been no ...
Du Preez, Pierre   +19 more
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Home range and habitat use of reintroduced Javan Deer in Panaitan Island, Ujung Kulon National Park

open access: yesJournal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 2015
The Javan deer which inhabit Panaitan Island (± 175 Km2) were reintroduced from Peucang Island (± 4.5 Km2) during 1978–1982 (3 males: 13 females). The information of home range and habitat use of these animals were needed for wildlife habitat management ...
Pairah   +3 more
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First Capture of a Jaguar Using a Minimally Invasive Capture System for GPS Tracking in an Isolated Patch of Atlantic Forest in Southern Brazil

open access: yesAnimals, 2023
This study presents the first successful capture using GPS tagging of a jaguar (Panthera onca) using a minimally invasive capture system (MICS). We used snare-foot traps and a MICS during two capture campaigns in a fragment of Atlantic Forest in ...
Francisco Palomares   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The relationship between niche breadth and geographic range size in African Horseshoe bats (Rhinolophidae, Chiroptera) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
According to Brown's hypothesis, generalists have high niche breadth and can tolerate a wide variety of environmental conditions resulting in large geographic range sizes. Conversely, specialists have low niche breadth and small range sizes.
Aronson, Jonathan
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The impacts of anthropogenic linear features on the space-use patterns of two sympatric ungulates

open access: yesMovement Ecology
As human activity increases worldwide, many ecologists have focused on how anthropogenic linear features (ALFs) such as roads and fences impact and disrupt animal space-use behavior and how this disruption could potentially affect population viability ...
Ronan B. Hart, Simona Picardi, Tal Avgar
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Sex Differences and Similarities in Urban Home Ranges and in the Accuracy of Cognitive Maps

open access: yesEvolutionary Psychology, 2014
Former research has examined potential human sex differences in spatial abilities or home range size. Both are assumed to have an adaptive function.
Pia Stephan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea home range and habitat use during the non-breeding season in Assam, India [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
India is an important non-breeding ground for migratory waterfowl in the Central Asian Flyway. Millions of birds visit wedands across the country, yet information on their distribution, abundance, and use of resources is rudimentary at best.
Mccracken, T.   +7 more
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