Mechanistic home range models capture spatial patterns and dynamics of coyote territories in Yellowstone.

ABSTRACT: Patterns of space-use by individuals are fundamental to the ecology of animal populations influencing their social organization, mating systems, demography and the spatial distribution of prey and competitors. To date, the principal method used to analyse the underlying determinants of animal home range patterns has been resource selection analysis (RSA), a spatially implicit approach that examines the relative frequencies of animal relocations in relation to landscape attributes. In this analysis, we adopt an alternative approach, using a series of mechanistic home range models to analyse observed patterns of territorial space-use by coyote packs in the heterogeneous landscape of Yellowstone National Park. Unlike RSAs, mechanistic home range models are derived from underlying correlated r

SUBMITTER: Moorcroft PR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1704082 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature