Home Range and Habitat Use of West Virginia Canis latrans (Coyote)

摘要: Canis latrans (Coyote) has undergone a range expansion in the United States over last century. As highly opportunistic species, its home and habitat use changes with ecological context. Coyotes were first reported West Virginia 1950 but not commonly observed until 1990s, there is scant information on region. We used telemetry data from 8 radiocollared to estimate home-range size third-order selection. Home-range areas (95% utilization distributions; UDs) varied 5.22 27.79 km2 (mean = 12.48 ± 2.61 km2), concentrated of smaller core 50% UD 1.85 0.34 indicated by low flatness ratios (50% isopleths/95% isopleths 0.11 0.20). Third-order selection revealed most was proportional availability, although evidence avoidance disturbed /developed riparian land cover at 95% scale, for softwood stands both spatial scales when available. Our results provide preliminary space-use suggest that are generalists, space region uniform, instead disjointed intensively.