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Home range use of coyotes: revisited
Northwest science., Vol.77(3), pp.214-227
2003
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/796
Abstract
The sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata)-steppe is a seemingly homogeneous community in southeastern Idaho, USA, nevertheless coyotes in this community do not use their home ranges uniformly. Also, they display two different movements: back-and-forth (B) and ranging (C). We used a geographic information system analysis to test if coyotes were selecting specific habitat characteristics in this community and if there was a relationship between habitats selected and B and C type movements. Our results show that coyotes exhibit habitat selection within their home range with sagebrush on and off lava as the preferred habitats. They also selected primarily sagebrush-steppe on lava habitat for B movements and sagebrush off lava habitat for C movements. During their 24-hour travels, males and females used different habitat combinations for both B and C movements. Males primarily used the sagebrush on and off lava habitats while females commonly used a wider range of habitat types. There were significant differences in habitat composition of areas coyotes used daily relative to season. Coyotes in general used a greater diversity of habitat types during the pair formation and pup rearing but concentrated their activity in the sagebrush-steppe on lava habitat during gestation. We suggest that coyotes used differing behaviours in different habitat types to meet their daily/seasonal food needs.
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- Title
- Home range use of coyotes: revisited
- Creators
- Lucina Hernendez (Author)John W. Laundre (Author)
- Publication Details
- Northwest science., Vol.77(3), pp.214-227
- Academic Unit
- Northwest Science
- Publisher
- WSU Press
- Identifiers
- 99900501757201842
- Copyright
- In copyright ; openAccess ; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ ; http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article