干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): Habitat use over winter by short-beaked echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus) at an intermittently flowing creek in arid north-western New South Wales

Arid

DOI	10.1071/AM20066
	Habitat use over winter by short-beaked echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus) at an intermittently flowing creek in arid north-western New South Wales
	Lawes, Jasmin C.; Croft, David B.
通讯作者	Lawes, JC (corresponding author), Univ New South Wales, Sch Biol Earth & Environm Sci, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
来源期刊	AUSTRALIAN MAMMALOGY
ISSN	0310-0049
EISSN	1836-7402
出版年	2021-04
英文摘要	The heterogeneity of resource distribution in arid environments plays an important role in habitat selection by consumers. The productivity of the riparian zones of intermittently flowing creeks is typically prolonged, relative to the hinterland, as moisture and nutrients concentrate there. Short-beaked echidnas, Tachyglossus aculeatus, sustain arid populations, attributed to ant and termite availability, low predation, and an ability to exploit habitat remnants. However, the scale of their movements in arid habitats is poorly understood. Thus, we investigated echidna home ranges and the importance of food and shelter availability in habitat selection over one winter. We focussed on the riparian zone of a creek at Mount Wood in Sturt National Park, north-western New South Wales, Australia. Radio tracking (VHF and GPS), scat and habitat selection analyses were conducted. Mean core and peripheral home range areas were 0.16 and 1.042 km(2), respectively, with a mean home range overlap of 0.56 km(2). Habitat selection differed between juveniles and adults and may have been driven by prey availability (predominantly ants). The preferred shelter was thick leaf litter. We concluded that habitat selection patterns were driven by prey availability (ants) and shelter (leaf litter).
英文关键词	ants behavioural ecology diet echidna habitat use home range leaf litter riparian ecology shelter Tachyglossus aculeatus
类型	Article ; Early Access
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000655322800001
WOS关键词	HOME-RANGE ; ECOLOGY ; MAMMALS ; MONOTREMATA ; AUSTRALIA ; SELECTION ; SPACE ; LIFE
WOS类目	Zoology
WOS研究方向	Zoology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/367506
作者单位	[Lawes, Jasmin C.; Croft, David B.] Univ New South Wales, Sch Biol Earth & Environm Sci, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lawes, Jasmin C.,Croft, David B.. Habitat use over winter by short-beaked echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus) at an intermittently flowing creek in arid north-western New South Wales[J],2021.
APA	Lawes, Jasmin C.,&Croft, David B..(2021).Habitat use over winter by short-beaked echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus) at an intermittently flowing creek in arid north-western New South Wales.AUSTRALIAN MAMMALOGY.
MLA	Lawes, Jasmin C.,et al."Habitat use over winter by short-beaked echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus) at an intermittently flowing creek in arid north-western New South Wales".AUSTRALIAN MAMMALOGY (2021).