Sex-specific seasonal variations of wild boar distance traveled and home range size.

ABSTRACT: Distance traveled and home range size describe how animals move in space. The seasonal variations of these parameters are important to comprehensively understand animal ecology and its connection with reproductive behavior and energy costs. Researchers usually estimate the distance traveled as the sum of the straight-line displacements between sampled positions, but this approach is sensitive to the sampling frequency and does not account for the tortuosity of the animal's movements. By means of the continuous-time movement modeling which takes into account autocorrelation and tortuosity of movement data, we estimated the distance traveled and monthly home range size of 28 wild boar Sus scrofa and modeled their inter-sexual seasonal variability. Males traveled longer distances and u

SUBMITTER: Cavazza S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11255988 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature