Home ranges, habitat and body mass: simple correlates of home range size in ungulates.

ABSTRACT: The spatial scale of animal space use, e.g. measured as individual home range size, is a key trait with important implications for ecological and evolutionary processes as well as management and conservation of populations and ecosystems. Explaining variation in home range size has therefore received great attention in ecological research. However, few studies have examined multiple hypotheses simultaneously, which is important provided the complex interactions between life history, social system and behaviour. Here, we review previous studies on home range size in ungulates, supplementing with a meta-analysis, to assess how differences in habitat use and species characteristics affect the relationship between body mass and home range size. Habitat type was the main factor explaining inter

SUBMITTER: Ofstad EG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5204158 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature