Examples of 'home range' in a sentence

Meaning of "home range"

The term 'home range' is used in biology and ecology to describe the geographical area or territory that an animal or group of animals regularly occupies or utilizes for essential activities such as foraging, shelter, and reproduction. It represents the range within which an animal or species typically moves or resides, but it is not fixed and can vary depending on factors such as resource availability or seasonal changes
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  • the area in which an animal lives and moves periodically

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These insects have a small home range.
The home range of a jackrabbit is about ten acres.
The animal had a typical home range of between.
Home range varies by quality of habitat.
It has a relatively small home range.
The home range of a pair is between seven and ten ha.
Animals urinate frequently to mark their home range.
The home range of the species is likewise drastically reduced.
Back to their home range.
Home range and travels.
Young may remain in their natal or an adjoining home range.
The home range size of this animal is currently unknown.
The age of the orphans in this home range dramatically.
With a tiny home range of just a few square kilometres.
Animals remain in the same home range for life.

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Home range area varies with habitat and habitat quality.
Little is known about their population numbers or home range.
A mating pair of aardwolves has a home range of up to four square km.
It may well die trying to return to its home range.
Groups of this species have a home range of about one hectare.
Home range studies are done by tracking turtles using radio telemetry equipment.
Males use a larger home range area than females use.
A home range varies in size depending on the habitat quality of bushland.
Now we are in a home range.
The size of a home range depends mainly on the availability of prey.
Individuals use several dens distributed throughout their home range.
This large home range is required to provide an adequate prey base.
Adults of the same gender are never allowed to invade a home range.
Close to the home range the animals would attempt to return to.
The troop is composed of two or more herds in a large home range.
Most platypuses have a broader home range than a single pool.
The perfect outposts as she forages throughout her home range.
Each animal has a home range of one to one and a half hectares.
Both sexes have about the same home range size.
The size of the home range of southern flying squirrels varies greatly.
Ancestral knowledge seems to draw them back to their primeval home range.
The home range for mothers are larger than those of young.
American badger use of home range varies with season and sex.
Home range and habitat selection of southern flying squirrels in fragmented forests.
Subsequent releases indicated an establishment of a home range in less than one month.
Home range size does not appear to be related to body size for either sex.
Resident adults and young of both sexes were captured at home range boundaries.
Persian fallow deer home range sizes vary based on gender and age.
This explains the huge variety of leopard home range size see above.
A home range is the area in which an animal lives and moves on a periodic basis.
Cattle were strongly attached to their home range and did not like to leave it.
Male cats will not allow another male to use their home range.
Each frog has a home range only a little bigger than a square meter.
Relevant information about the VECs is to be presented graphically to document home range characteristics.
This group maintains a home range that is largely exclusive of other family groups.

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