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SOUTHWESTERN NATURALIST
Volume 54, Issue 1, Pages 1-12Publisher
SOUTHWESTERN ASSOC NATURALISTS
DOI: 10.1894/MLK-05.1
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- The Arizona Game and Fish Department
- School of Natural Resources
- Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station
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Several aspects of the ecology of coyotes (Canis latrans) have been studied in cities (i.e., diet, use and selection of habitat, movements), but additional knowledge will assist persons that are responsible for management of urban predators. We studied coyotes in central Tucson, Pima Co., Arizona, during November 2005-November 2006. Our Objectives were to monitor radiocollared coyotes to determine size of home range, to ascertain use of habitat based on land-use categories and movements, and to describe a den of urban coyotes. Average size of home range calculated using the 95% fixed-kernel method was 26.8 +/- 5.1 SE km(2) for resident. coyotes. Overall, land categories used most often were washes, medium-density residential areas, and low-density residential areas. Movements, were <520 m/h within land-use categories used most often during clay and night. (i.e., medium-density residential areas and washes) and >800 m/h in areas that were used most during the night (i.e., high-density residential and commercial areas). Coyotes were able to meet their life-history requirements in central Tucson likely clue to available resources and a diversity of land-use categories, especially washes.
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