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Habitat richness affects home range size in the red fox Vulpes vulpes
1Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ethology and Behavioural Ecology Group, University of Siena, Via Mattioli 4, 53100 Siena, Italy.
Abstract:
The spatial behaviour of the red fox Vulpes vulpes shows a great flexibility (Voigt and Macdonald, 1984). Home range size varies from 10 to over 5000 ha (Macdonald, 1987; Voigt, 1987). In carnivores, variations in home range size, weighed for body mass (Gittleman and Harvey, 1982), are largely related to differences in habitat productivity, but the intraspecific local variation in home range size can be only partially explained by differences in productivity. Macdonald (1981, 1983) suggested that home range size and configuration were determined in the red fox by the dispersion of food-rich patches. More recently, it has been found that In this paper, evidence for a strong influence of habitat richness on home range size of the red fox is reported.
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