Sex-specific resource strategies mediate home range sizes of an endangered carnivore across multiple scales.

ABSTRACT: Home ranges reflect a trade-off between the costs and benefits associated with acquiring resources and are influenced by complex interactions among intrinsic and extrinsic factors. These factors can lead to different spatial and temporal patterns to acquire the necessary resources that meet energetic and reproductive needs. Identifying the drivers of these strategies concurrently across spatiotemporal scales remains rare but is essential for identifying landscape constraints on populations in rapidly changing systems. We examined spatiotemporal drivers of home range size of the federally endangered ocelot (Leopardus pardalis; [22 Males, 12 Females]) in the two remaining populations in the USA. Males increased home range size during reproductive periods while females constrained their home

SUBMITTER: Smith MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12489140 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature