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DOI	10.1002/ece3.7810
	Visitation of artificial watering points by the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) in semiarid Australia
	Roshier, David A.; Signer, Johannes; Carter, Andrew
通讯作者	Roshier, DA (corresponding author), Australian Wildlife Conservancy, POB 8070, Subiaco East, WA 6008, Australia.
来源期刊	ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
ISSN	2045-7758
出版年	2021
卷号	11 期号:14 页码:9815-9826
英文摘要	The introduced red fox (Vulpes vulpes) now occupies most of the Australian continent outside the tropics, including arid and semiarid ecosystems. Information on the water requirements of foxes is scant, but free water is not thought to be required if adequate moisture-containing food is available. The frequency and duration of visits by foxes fitted with GPS collars to known artificial watering points in semiarid Australia were recorded for 22 individual foxes across four austral seasons between October 2015 and November 2017, providing >93,000 location fixes. We modeled home range and the distance traveled by range-resident foxes beyond their home range to reach known water sources. We used recurse analysis to determine the frequency of visitation and step-selection functions to model the speed and directionality of movement inside and outside the home range. Our study demonstrates that some foxes in this semiarid environment utilize free-standing water. The findings suggest that artificial watering points can be used as a focal point for conducting strategic fox control in arid and semiarid environments. Additionally, strategies that restrict access to water by foxes may reduce their duration of occupancy and/or long-term abundance in parts of the landscape, thus providing benefits for conservation and agriculture.
英文关键词	animal movement fox management GPS tracking habitat selection analysis mesopredators recursion
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold, Green Published
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000667080200001
WOS关键词	HABITAT SELECTION ; HOME-RANGE ; DESERT ; PREDATOR ; DECLINE ; FAUNA ; POPULATIONS ; MANAGEMENT ; CARNIVORE ; SAVANNA
WOS类目	Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/352129
作者单位	[Roshier, David A.; Carter, Andrew] Australian Wildlife Conservancy, POB 8070, Subiaco East, WA 6008, Australia; [Roshier, David A.] Univ Adelaide, Sch Anim & Vet Sci, Adelaide, SA, Australia; [Signer, Johannes] Univ Goettingen, Fac Forest Sci & Forest Ecol, Wildlife Sci, Gottingen, Germany; [Carter, Andrew] Charles Sturt Univ, Inst Land Water & Soc, Albury, NSW, Australia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Roshier, David A.,Signer, Johannes,Carter, Andrew. Visitation of artificial watering points by the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) in semiarid Australia[J],2021,11(14):9815-9826.
APA	Roshier, David A.,Signer, Johannes,&Carter, Andrew.(2021).Visitation of artificial watering points by the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) in semiarid Australia.ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION,11(14),9815-9826.
MLA	Roshier, David A.,et al."Visitation of artificial watering points by the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) in semiarid Australia".ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 11.14(2021):9815-9826.