caa a22 4500 46909737X CHVBK 20180323133035.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00317244 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00317244 Habitat selection and home range in the Blanford's fox, Vulpes cana [Elektronische Daten] compatibility with the resource dispersion hypothesis [Eli Geffen, Reuven Hefner, David Macdonald, Michal Ucko] Summary: This paper presents analyses of habitat-use and home range size in the Blanford's fox. We predicted, from the resource dispersion hypothesis (RDH), that home ranges would encompass similar areas of combined fruitful habitats, but widely different areas of useless habitats, and thus that home ranges would be larger where such fruitful patches are fragmented and widely dispersed. Home range estimates of 0.5-2.0 km2 were calculated for 16 adult Blanford's foxes, using three different methods. There were no significant differences in home range size between sexes or study sites. One habitat, dry creekbed, was the most frequently visited in all home ranges. Dry creekbed provided abundant prey for the foxes and only sparse cover for their predators. Both the available area of creekbed in each range, and the area of creekbed patches that was used by the foxes, were independent of home range size. However, the variance in home range size was explained by the mean distance between the main denning area and the most frequently used patches of creekbed. These results are in accord with some predictions of the resource dispersion hypothesis. Springer-Verlag, 1992 Blanford's fox nationallicence Habitat selection nationallicence Home range nationallicence Food patch nationallicence Resource dispersion hypothesis nationallicence Geffen Eli Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Dept. of Zoology, South Parks Road, OX1 3PS, Oxford, UK aut Hefner Reuven Nature Reserves Authority, P.O. Box, 667, Eilat, Israel aut Macdonald David Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Dept. of Zoology, South Parks Road, OX1 3PS, Oxford, UK aut Ucko Michal I.O.L.R., National Center for Marine Culture, P.O. Box 1212, 88112, Eilat, Israel aut Oecologia Springer-Verlag 91/1(1992-08-01), 75-81 0029-8549 91:1<75 1992 91 442 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00317244 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00317244 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Geffen Eli Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Dept. of Zoology, South Parks Road, OX1 3PS, Oxford, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hefner Reuven Nature Reserves Authority, P.O. Box, 667, Eilat, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Macdonald David Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Dept. of Zoology, South Parks Road, OX1 3PS, Oxford, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ucko Michal I.O.L.R., National Center for Marine Culture, P.O. Box 1212, 88112, Eilat, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Oecologia Springer-Verlag 91/1(1992-08-01), 75-81 0029-8549 91:1<75 1992 91 442 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer