Home range - body mass relations: a field study on African browsing ruminants.

Abstract:

:Home range data were collected concurrently from four syntopic browsing ruminant species in a conserved savanna ecosystem. Mean home range areas were: giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) 282 km2; kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) 21.9 km2; impala (Aepyceros melampus) 5.82 km2; steenbok (Raphicerus campestris) 0.62 km2. Home range area (A hr) scaled on body mass (M) as: A hr=0.024 M 1.38 (r 2=0.99).

journal_name

Oecologia

journal_title

Oecologia

authors

du Toit JT

doi

10.1007/BF00319416

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1990-12-01 00:00:00

pages

301-303

issue

2

eissn

0029-8549

issn

1432-1939

pii

10.1007/BF00319416

journal_volume

85

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