naa a22 4500 510745148 CHVBK 20180411083043.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s13364-012-0112-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s13364-012-0112-y Resource dispersion, territory size and group size of black-backed jackals on a desert coast [Elektronische Daten] [Jan Nel, Rudi Loutit, Rod Braby, Michael Somers] We studied the relationship between resource—food patch—richness and dispersion on group and territory size of black-backed jackals Canis mesomelas in the Namib Desert. Along beaches where food patches are mostly small, widely separated jackal group sizes are small, and territories are narrow and extremely elongated. Where food patches are rich, fairly clumped and also heterogeneous, group sizes are large and territory sizes small. At a superabundant and highly clumped food source—a large seal rookery—group sizes are large, and territoriality is absent. Although jackals feed at the coast and den nearby, individuals move linearly far inland along well-defined footpaths. The marked climatic gradient from the cold coast inland—a drop in wind speed and rise in effective temperature T e - and use of particular paths by different groups—strongly suggests that these movements are for thermoregulatory reasons only. Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Białowieża, Poland, 2012 Canis mesomelas nationallicence Desert coast nationallicence Resource dispersion nationallicence Spatial organization nationallicence Nel Jan Department of Botany and Zoology, University of Stellenbosch, 7602, Stellenbosch, South Africa aut Loutit Rudi Ministry of Wildlife and Tourism, Windhoek, Namibia aut Braby Rod Ministry of Wildlife and Tourism, Windhoek, Namibia aut Somers Michael Centre for Wildlife Management, University of Pretoria, 0002, Pretoria, South Africa aut Acta Theriologica Springer-Verlag 58/2(2013-04-01), 189-197 0001-7051 58:2<189 2013 58 13364 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13364-012-0112-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13364-012-0112-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nel Jan Department of Botany and Zoology, University of Stellenbosch, 7602, Stellenbosch, South Africa aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Loutit Rudi Ministry of Wildlife and Tourism, Windhoek, Namibia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Braby Rod Ministry of Wildlife and Tourism, Windhoek, Namibia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Somers Michael Centre for Wildlife Management, University of Pretoria, 0002, Pretoria, South Africa aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Acta Theriologica Springer-Verlag 58/2(2013-04-01), 189-197 0001-7051 58:2<189 2013 58 13364 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer