干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): Space use and daily movement patterns in an arid zone agamid lizard

Arid

DOI	10.1071/WR20152
	Space use and daily movement patterns in an arid zone agamid lizard
	Bernich, Adam; Maute, Kimberly; Contador-Kelsall, Isabella C.; Story, Paul G.; Hose, Grant C.; French, Kristine
通讯作者	Bernich, A
来源期刊	WILDLIFE RESEARCH
ISSN	1035-3712
EISSN	1448-5494
出版年	2022
卷号	49 期号:6 页码:557-570
英文摘要	Context. Quantifying the space use and movement patterns of animals is important to understand other aspects of a species ecology, such as habitat use and social systems. However, basic data on space use and movement patterns, and how they are influenced by biotic or abiotic factors, are lacking for many species. Aims. We identified the space use and movement patterns of the central bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps), and assessed how external factors (environmental conditions) and internal factors (sex and morphology) shape these patterns. Methods. We tracked 36 P. vitticeps individuals over three seasons from 2017 to 2018. Animals carried tags with a Global Positioning Systems (GPS) device to collect spatial data and an accelerometer to collect movement data in far western New South Wales, Australia. Measurements of body morphology were taken for each individual and ambient temperatures were recorded. Space use was analysed by calculating minimum convex polygons (MCPs) and kernel density estimates (KDEs) using the spatial data. Movement data were analysed to determine whether dragons had moved during 10-min periods. Results. Twenty-three out of 36 individuals held defined activity areas. Males with wider tails were most likely to be floaters (i.e. not restricted to specific areas). Evidence of floater behaviour was shown by 45% of females and 20% of males, though both sexes often roamed over distances greater than 1 km. Air temperatures strongly influenced movement rates in both sexes. Movement rate was significantly higher for males than females during late-spring, but not mid-summer, and was inversely related to head sizes and body mass during mid-summer. Interestingly, although there was no correlation observed between daily movement rates and size of MCPs calculated, the movement rates of residents were significantly different from floaters for each season. Conclusions. These results confirm that wild P. vitticeps movement patterns are driven by temperature, though space-use patterns vary from previously studied agamids, with high rates of nomadism, possibly due to drought conditions. Individuals varied widely in their space-use tactics, which seem unrelated to size, a potential proxy for social status or age.
英文关键词	accelerometer agamid lizard floater GIS home range movement patterns Pogona vitticeps space use telemetry temperature
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	hybrid
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000787828500001
WOS关键词	HOME-RANGE ; CHLAMYDOSAURUS-KINGII ; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS ; TERRITORIAL DEFENSE ; FRILLNECK LIZARDS ; SOCIAL-STRUCTURE ; MONITOR LIZARD ; TILIQUA-RUGOSA ; HABITAT USE ; POPULATION
WOS类目	Ecology ; Zoology
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Zoology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/394914
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Bernich, Adam,Maute, Kimberly,Contador-Kelsall, Isabella C.,et al. Space use and daily movement patterns in an arid zone agamid lizard[J],2022,49(6):557-570.
APA	Bernich, Adam,Maute, Kimberly,Contador-Kelsall, Isabella C.,Story, Paul G.,Hose, Grant C.,&French, Kristine.(2022).Space use and daily movement patterns in an arid zone agamid lizard.WILDLIFE RESEARCH,49(6),557-570.
MLA	Bernich, Adam,et al."Space use and daily movement patterns in an arid zone agamid lizard".WILDLIFE RESEARCH 49.6(2022):557-570.