scholarly journals Twenty-year home-range dynamics of a white-tailed deer matriline

1999 ◽  
Vol 77 (7) ◽  
pp. 1128-1135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E Nelson ◽  
L David Mech

We examined the seasonal migration and home-range dynamics of a multigeneration white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) matriline comprising six females from four generations spanning a 20-year period in northeastern Minnesota. All, from the matriarch to her great-granddaughter, migrated to the same summer and winter ranges, the longest individual record being 14.5 years. Three maternal females concurrently occupied exclusive fawning sites within their ancestral matriarch's summer range, while two nonmaternal females explored new areas and ranged near their mothers. One great-granddaughter expanded her summer range 1 km beyond the matriarch's summer range while essentially vacating half of her ancestors' range and becoming nonmigratory the last 4 years of her life. These data indicate that individual movements of matriline members can potentially expand their ranges beyond the areas occupied by their ancestors through a slow process of small incremental changes. This suggests that the rapid extension of deer range in eastern North America resulted from natal dispersal by yearling deer rather than from the type of home-range expansion reported here.

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine M. Anderson ◽  
H. Grant Gilchrist ◽  
Robert A. Ronconi ◽  
Katherine R. Shlepr ◽  
Daniel E. Clark ◽  
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The Condor ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 119 (4) ◽  
pp. 697-719 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tricia A. Miller ◽  
Robert P. Brooks ◽  
Michael J. Lanzone ◽  
Jeff Cooper ◽  
Kieran O'Malley ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (22) ◽  
pp. 4473-4486
Author(s):  
Carly J. Prior ◽  
Nathan C. Layman ◽  
Matthew H. Koski ◽  
Laura F. Galloway ◽  
Jeremiah W. Busch

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 3292-3301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabian Sittaro ◽  
Alain Paquette ◽  
Christian Messier ◽  
Charles A. Nock

The Condor ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence H. Walkinshaw ◽  
Dale A. Zimmerman

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 472-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew C. Fitzpatrick ◽  
Evan L. Preisser ◽  
Adam Porter ◽  
Joseph Elkinton ◽  
Aaron M. Ellison

Paleobiology ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce S. Lieberman ◽  
Niles Eldredge

Phylogenetic patterns of trilobite clades were used to deduce biogeographic patterns during the Middle Devonian, a time of active plate collision between North America (Laurentia) and other plates, coincident with several major episodes of sea-level rise and fall. The mapping of biogeographic states onto phylogenies for asteropyginid and proetid trilobites indicated that during their history these trilobite clades often shifted the areas they occupied, and also underwent vicariant differentiation, followed by range expansion, followed by subsequent vicariance. Biogeographic patterns in these individual phylogenies were evaluated and synthesized using a modified version of Brooks Parsimony Analysis, which is discussed. This method makes it possible using cladistic methods to distinguish between episodes of vicariance and episodes of dispersal. Two types of dispersal are recognized herein: (1) the individualistic responses of certain taxa in a single clade that cannot be generalized, i.e., traditional ad hoc dispersal, and (2) those patterns of congruent range expansion that are replicated across several clades. The latter are not treated as true dispersal, expansion of a taxon's range over a barrier accompanied by diversification, but rather as a result of the temporary removal of barriers to marine taxa, due either to relative sea-level rise or to the collision of formerly disjunct plates. These are interpreted as changes in the structure of areas, and this type of dispersal is referred to as geo-dispersal. Geo-dispersal was found to have occurred in the Middle Devonian trilobite fauna of Eastern North America.Biogeographic analysis indicated that Eastern North America is a strongly supported area, with the Appalachian and Michigan Basins as sister areas. Armorica and the Canadian Arctic are also sister areas. Congruence was found between area cladograms produced by vicariance and dispersal analyses for Middle Devonian trilobites, suggesting that in some cases the geological processes governing vicariance, such as sea-level changes, were the same as those that caused dispersal.


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