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dc.contributor.authorMcKeown, Benjamin
dc.contributor.authorWalton, Zea Ann
dc.contributor.authorWillebrand, Tomas
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-14T09:15:08Z
dc.date.available2020-09-14T09:15:08Z
dc.date.created2020-02-04T14:19:59Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.issn0909-6396
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2677593
dc.description.abstractA home range represents the outcome of the interplay between an environment, an animal’s understanding of that envi-ronment, and its subsequent movement decisions. Yet, recent studies suggest that recursive movement strategies have been overlooked in the shaping of animal home range patterns. Using fourteen GPS collared red foxes, we investigated within home range movements for recursive movement behaviour, suggesting a cognitive map, and explored how these shape ani-mal space-use patterns. We found that red foxes showed significant clustering in recorded positions, indicative of recursive site use. An average of 43% of positions were found in defined clusters that covered a proportional area of only 1% of their recorded range. Ground-truthing revealed that clusters were attributed to recursive visits, and extended residence time at clumped food sources, bed or den sites, routes and vantage points in the landscape. Our results provide evidence that, while red foxes maintained exploratory movement, recursive site use played a significant role in optimising movements between distinct core areas. We conclude that these patterns support the concept of cognitive mapping enabling recursive resource use, which can lead to emergence of bounded space use, rather than a continuous drifting across the landscape. We propose that by identifying resource locations that are used recursively; it is possible to move a step closer in revealing an animal’s cognitive map, or indeed, the movement behaviour underlying home range formation.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjectanimal movementen_US
dc.subjectclusteringen_US
dc.subjectGPSen_US
dc.subjectground truthingen_US
dc.subjectmemoryen_US
dc.subjectspace useen_US
dc.subjectVulpes vulpesen_US
dc.subjectred foxen_US
dc.titleDoes recursive use of resource locations shape a home range? Exploring the red fox's cognitive map.en_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480en_US
dc.source.pagenumber9en_US
dc.source.journalWildlife Biologyen_US
dc.source.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.2981/wlb.00602
dc.identifier.cristin1790778
cristin.ispublishedtrue
cristin.fulltextoriginal
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