Early life experience influences dispersal in coyotes (Canis latrans).

ABSTRACT: Natal dispersal plays an important role in connecting individual animal behavior with ecological processes at all levels of biological organization. As urban environments are rapidly increasing in extent and intensity, understanding how urbanization influences these long distance movements is critical for predicting the persistence of species and communities. There is considerable variation in the movement responses of individuals within a species, some of which is attributed to behavioral plasticity which interacts with experience to produce interindividual differences in behavior. For natal dispersers, much of this experience occurs in the natal home range. Using data collected from VHF collared coyotes (Canis latrans) in the Chicago Metropolitan Area we explored the relationship

SUBMITTER: Zepeda E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8374878 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature