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OECOLOGIA
卷 195, 期 2, 页码 479-488出版社
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DOI: 10.1007/s00442-020-04832-4
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Activity; Energetic constraints; Phylogenetic mixed model; Squamates; Temperature
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- University of Ottawa
- Carleton University
A home range is the area where animals carry out routine activities, influenced by factors like gender, age, and diet. Among snakes, adult males tend to have larger home ranges than juveniles and females, and species with fish-based diets usually have smaller home ranges.
A home range is the area animals use to carry out routine activities such as mating, foraging, and caring for young. Thus, the area of a home range is an important indicator of an animal's behavioural and energetic requirements. While several studies have identified the factors that influence home range area (HRA), none of them has investigated global patterns of HRA among and within snake species. Here, we used a phylogenetic mixed model to determine which factors influence HRA in 51 snake species. We analysed 200 HRA estimates to test the influence of body mass, sex, age, diet, precipitation, latitude, winter and summer temperature, while controlling for the duration of the study and sample size. We found that males had larger HRA than females, that adults had larger HRA than juveniles, and that snake species with fish-based diets had smaller HRA than snake species with terrestrial vertebrate-based and invertebrate-based diets. We also found that HRA tended to increase as mean winter temperature decreases and tended to decrease with precipitation. After accounting for these factors, the phylogenetic heritability of HRA in snakes was low (0.21 +/- 0.14). Determining the factors that dictate macroecological patterns of space use has important management implications in an era of rapid climate change.
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