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

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1594, 2006, Pages 1651-1659

  Moorcroft, Paul R ^a   Lewis, Mark A ^b   Crabtree, Robert L ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c Yellowstone Ecological Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal movement; Carnivora; Coyotes; Foraging behaviour; Mechanistic home range models; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; CANID; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOME RANGE; MOVEMENT; PERTURBATION; RESOURCE SELECTION; SPACE USE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COYOTE; HOME RANGE; NATIONAL PARK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERRITORIALITY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK;

ANIMALIA; CANIS LATRANS; CARNIVORA;

ANIMALS; COYOTES; HOMING BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; WYOMING;

EID: 33747178429     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3439     Document Type: Article

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