دورية أكاديمية
Survival and cause-specific mortality of gray foxes (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) in southern California
| العنوان: | Survival and cause-specific mortality of gray foxes (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) in southern California |
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| المؤلفون: | Farias, V, Fuller, TK, Wayne, RK, Sauvajot, RM |
| المصدر: | Environmental Conservation Faculty Publication Series |
| بيانات النشر: | ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst |
| سنة النشر: | 2005 |
| المجموعة: | University of Massachusetts: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | bobcat, California, Canis latrans, carnivores, coyote, Felis rufus, gray foxes intraguild predation, mortality, survival, sympatry, Urocyon cinereoargenteus |
| الوصف: | From May 1997 to July 1999, 24 gray foxes Urocyon cinereoargenteus were radio-marked and their fates monitored in a natural area of southern California to identify rates of survival and cause-specific mortality, and thus to assess population sustainability. Pup (0.4–1.0 years old) foxes had an 8-month (September–April) survival rate (0.34) that was lower than the 8-month (0.77) or 12-month (0.58) estimates for adult foxes. Interference competition was evident; 92% (11/12) of fox mortalities were the result of predation by sympatric coyotes Canis latrans or bobcats Felis rufus. Also, five of seven gray fox mortalities were outside of, or on the border of, the home range of the killed fox. Calculations indicated that the fox population would remain stable if survival of pups during their first 4 months of life was 0.68 (vs 0.75 for adults during these months and 0.58 for older pups for 4 other months). This seems reasonable, yet sympatric carnivores, mainly coyotes, clearly influence the gray fox population in southern California. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | text |
| اللغة: | unknown |
| العلاقة: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nrc_faculty_pubs/91Test |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0952836905006850 |
| الإتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952836905006850Test https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nrc_faculty_pubs/91Test |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.4D735B0B |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0952836905006850 |
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