Seasonality, weather and climate affect home range size in roe deer across a wide latitudinal gradient within Europe

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1326-1339

  Morellet, Nicolas ^a   Bonenfant, Christophe ^b   Börger, Luca ^c   Ossi, Federico ^b,d   Cagnacci, Francesca ^d   Heurich, Marco ^e   Kjellander, Petter ^f   Linnell, John D C ^g   Nicoloso, Sandro ^h   Sustr, Pavel ⁱ   Urbano, Ferdinando ^j   Mysterud, Atle ^k  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^e BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK   (Germany)

^f SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^g NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^h Energy and Environment Sector   (Italy)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^j UNIVERSITY IUAV OF VENICE   (Italy)

^k UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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Author keywords

Animal movements; Day length; Large herbivore; Ranging behaviour; Spatiotemporal variation

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CLIMATE; DAY LENGTH; DEER; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GPS; HERBIVORE; HOME RANGE; LANDSCAPE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; RANGE SIZE; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEASONALITY; SNOW COVER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WEATHER;

WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; CAPREOLUS; CAPREOLUS CAPREOLUS; CERVIDAE; MAMMALIA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MOVEMENTS; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DAY LENGTH; DEER; EUROPE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; LARGE HERBIVORE; PHYSIOLOGY; RANGING BEHAVIOUR; SEASON; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIATION; WEATHER;

ANIMAL MOVEMENTS; DAY LENGTH; LARGE HERBIVORE; RANGING BEHAVIOUR; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIATION;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; DEER; EUROPE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOMING BEHAVIOR; SEASONS; WEATHER;

EID: 84886295948     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12105     Document Type: Article

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