Dispersal distance of mammals is proportional to home range size

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 2049-2055

  Bowman, Jeff ^a,b   Jaeger, Jochen A G ^a   Fahrig, Lenore ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allometric; Dispersal distance; Home range; Homing; Isometric; Mammal; Relocation; Scale; Scaling; Simulation model; Translocation; Vagility

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BODY SIZE; DISPERSAL; HOME RANGE; MAMMAL; RANGE SIZE; TRANSLOCATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0012243512     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[2049:DDOMIP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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