Download or read book Spatial Ecology of Eastern Coyotes Canis Latrans in the Anthropogenic Landscape of Cape Cod Massachusetts written by Maili S. Page and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ecolog of Cape Cod Coyotes Canis Latrans Var written by Jonathan G. Way and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anthropogenic Influence on Coyote Canis Latrans Winter Movements in Eastern New Brunswick written by Mathieu Dumond and published by Halifax : Parks Canada, Atlantic Region. This book was released on 2001 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents the results of 2 capture and restrain procedures used on coyotes in the Greater Kouchibouguac Ecosystem in New Brunswick. It describes the capture methods, their efficiency, and by-catch management, and addresses recommendations for future studies needing to live-trap canids. It also presents the results of an assessment of anthropogenic influence on coyote winter movements, by comparing the home ranges, movements and activity of radio-collared coyotes.
Download or read book Suburban Howls written by Jonathan Way and published by Suburban Howls. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the experiences and findings of a biologist studying coyote ecology and behavior in urbanized eastern Massachusetts. Jon Way is acting out a childhood dream to study wild animals. However, instead of going to far off places such as Africa or the remote stretches of the Rocky Mountains, he began his professional career in high school and college by tracking eastern coyotes in his own hometown on Cape Cod. We hear so much about this unique animal and the conflicts it can create but relatively little is known about the coyotes in the east. The lack of other studies taking place on coyotes in urbanized areas in eastern North America provided Way with the perfect graduate project, and an unending source of information and entertainment. The coyote is a remarkable animal, being one of the only carnivores to actually increase its range and distribution in the past one hundred years. Coyotes have taken over as top predator in all environments in New England from wilderness parks to city greenbelts. Along its migration to the northeast it has become larger, likely the product of hybridization between western coyotes and eastern wolves, and with that, we see more speculation and theories about what the animal is, how it got here, and why it is here. This book celebrates having these animals living among us and makes a passionate plea for their protection. After all, with the eradication of most of their competition in New England, mainly wolves, a niche for a relatively large carnivore was left vacant for over one hundred years. Coyotes naturally colonized these areas on their own four feet and deserve the respect that any native carnivore should be granted. With their tremendous range expansion in a relatively short amount of time, coyotes proved that it is unnatural not to have a predator in most ecosystems. In Suburban Howls, Way takes us with him as he navigates dirt roads and wooded paths, travels through cemeteries, around cranberry bogs, in and out of residential areas, down power lines, and even into the city to see where coyotes travel and rest and how they survive, raise pups, prosper as a family, and ultimately die, many before their time. A fascinating account details the author raising a wild-born litter of coyotes, capturing his first coyote in a box trap, tracking a coyote into downtown Boston, documenting an increase in local coyote numbers following the death of resident territorial coyotes, and seeing first-hand how coyotes mourn when separated from their family. The reader will discover that it is perfectly appropriate to have wildlife in developed areas and that people, not wild animals, are the ones that typically have a hard time adjusting to their new neighbors. With a territorial species like a coyote, any land that does not have other coyotes might as well have a "For Rent" sign out. This book is written for the layman in a humorous, easy-reading style. It highlights the dedication and emotional involvement of working with this needlessly controversial animal, and will offer simple precautions to enable Homo sapiens to coexist with these wild canines that Native Americans called the Trickster. The data Way has gathered over the past ten years will enlighten and educate you with an insight into the behavior and habits of these remarkable wild dogs.
Download or read book Suburban Howls written by Jonathan G Way and published by . This book was released on 2014-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the experiences and findings of a biologist studying eastern coyote ecology and behavior in urbanized eastern Massachusetts. It is written in layman's language and weaves in research results with personal experiences to give a fuller picture understand canid ecology and behavior while making it easy to read
Download or read book Geospatial and Statistical Analyses of Home Range Areas and Suburban urban Land Use Patterns of Eastern Coyotes Canis Latrans on Cape Cod Massachusetts a Thesis written by Kelly J. Worley and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Track Data Analysis of Eastern Coyote on a Cape Cod Barrier Beach written by Stephany G. Perkins and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Track count data of eastern coyote on Sandy Neck Beach in Barnstable, MA were collected through GPS mapping of track recovery transects over seven months, between September, 2010 and March, 2011. The Formozov-Malyshev-Pereleshin formula was applied to the track counts to estimate coyote densities, predicting a density of approximately 0.20 coyotes/km2 in the study area. Statistical analysis were conducted on data in order to indicate if coyote movements were influenced by habitat preference, season (month), and east-west location; of these, only habitat type exhibited a statistically significant difference among densities, with coyotes preferring the interdune habitat over the marsh habitat and beachfront. This preference is most likely influenced by food availability and/or anthropogenic presence. The reported study's preliminary site-specific baseline data may be beneficial for future management plans intent on protecting threatened shore birds while maintaining an appropriate meso-predator component in the Sandy Neck barrier beach/salt marsh ecosystem.
Download or read book Coyote at the Kitchen Door written by Stephen DeStefano and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moose frustrates commuters by wandering onto the highway; an alligator suns himself in a strip mall parking lot. DeStefano draws on decades of experience as a biologist and conservationist to examine the interplay between urban sprawl and wayward wildlife. He asks us to rethink the meaning of progress and create a new suburban wildlife ethic.
Download or read book Canis Introgression in Ohio s Coyotes written by Eileen M. Wyza and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1800s, eastern North American landscapes have experienced extensive anthropogenic changes. Large swaths of forest were timbered, innumerable roads and railways were constructed westward, and extirpation of large apex predators altered the faunal communities that once existed there. Among these large predators, the gray wolf (Canis lupus) all but vanished from the landscape due to intense persecution. Some species, however, were able to adapt and thrive on this changing landscape. The coyote (Canis latrans) is one such example. As deforestation and transportation networks expanded westward, coyote ranges began to expand eastward. This smaller canid that had evolved in the open grasslands of North America was able to navigate the deforested east and fill the predatory niche left vacant by gray wolves. During the coyote range expansion, hybridization among coyotes, wolves, and domestic dogs began to occur. Dispersing coyotes that came in contact with isolated remnant populations of gray wolves or free-ranging dogs occasionally interbred, leading to eastern coyote populations that preserve genetic remnants from both gray wolves and domestic dogs. This genetic introgression was first discovered in the northeastern United States in the 2010s, but more recent works have expanded the zone of introgression into the Great Lakes region of North America. Despite increasing understanding of the coyote-wolf-dog contact zone, Ohio's coyotes were previously believed to have not hybridized with other canids. However, a few studies suggested that Ohio coyotes also preserve evidence of hybridization with domestic dogs and wolves. This dissertation expands on the smaller pre-existing dataset to identify genetic markers that would confirm admixture with domestic dogs and wolves in Ohio's coyote ancestry. I do this by first providing evolutionary context for the genus Canis exploring the anastomosing histories of hybridization events among coyote, wolf and domestic dog populations. I then conduct analyses to identify gray wolf and domestic dog genetic markers in a robust dataset of Ohio coyotes. Next, I analyze whether natural and/or anthropogenic landscape features predict the prevalence of gray wolf and domestic dog genetic markers examined for the Ohio coyote sample. In the final chapter, I explore how genetic introgression of gray wolf and domestic dog impacts coyote interactions with bobcats (Felis rufus), another mesopredator in Ohio. The coyotes sampled in this dissertation reveal extensive evidence of historical hybridization with both gray wolves and domestic dogs, providing further support that Ohio is part of the coyote-wolf-dog hybrid zone. Landscape factors including transportation networks and forest cover predicted the relative proportion of wolf or dog alleles in the Ohio coyote dataset. Finally, the presence of wolf and/or dog alleles did not observably alter behavioral relationships between coyotes and bobcats. This dissertation helps to untangle complex relationships among genetics, landscape, and behavior in a coyote-wolf-dog hybrid zone, documenting historical hybridization among canid species and offering future directions for research and management
Download or read book Coyotes Canis latrans response to anthropogenic pressures on a heterogeneous landscape written by Shelby Fraser and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Winter Ecology of the Eastern Coyote Canis Latrans in Fundy National Park written by Lloyd Dale Morton and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Predation Ecology of the Eastern Coyote Canis Latrans Var in the Adirondacks New York written by Gary C. Brundige and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coyotes written by Marc Bekoff and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1978, this text pulls together much disparate research in coyote evolution, taxonomy, reproduction, communication, behavioral development, population dynamics, and ecological studies in the Southwest, Minnesota, Iowa, New England, and Wyoming. (Animals/Pets)
Download or read book Habitat Use of Eastern Coyotes canis Latrans Var on Prescott Peninsula Quabbin Reservation Massachusetts written by Gabriella Stupakoff and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Space Use by Coyotes Canis Latrans in an Urbanizing Landscape and Implications for Management written by Gregory A. Franckowiak and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 100 years, the coyote (Canis latrans) has expanded its geographic range across North America. As a result of their adaptability and behavioral flexibility, coyotes are now a common occupant of urban areas in the United States. Because their expansion from rural to urban areas is recent, there is limited research on coyote space use with in different levels of development when ranging from truly urban to truly rural environments. We studied a total of 34 radiocollared coyotes in the Cuyahoga Valley, OH region from October 2009 through October 2012 to determine variation in coyote home range size, home range land cover composition, and habitat selection in northeast Ohio. Mean ([plus or minus] SE) composite home ranges of transient coyotes (x̄ = 108.614 [plus or minus] 16.667 km2) were significantly larger than those of resident coyotes (x̄ = 6.63 [plus or minus] 0.729 km2) in the Cuyahoga Valley, Ohio. Home ranges did not vary by sex or season for resident and transient coyotes, but resident subadults had significantly larger composite home ranges than other age classes. Home range sizes of transient coyotes were significantly larger than resident coyotes during the breeding, pup-rearing, and dispersal seasons. Neither sex nor age significantly influenced resident or transient coyote seasonal home range. Resident coyote home range size was smaller than found in previous studies. An a priori prediction that coyote home range size in the Cuyahoga Valley would be intermediate to coyote home range size in more urban and more rural habitats was, therefore, not supported. Within the study area and individual home ranges, coyotes commonly avoided land-cover types associated with human development and predominately selected natural habitats (i.e. deciduous forests, grasslands, etc.) more than they were available with little variation as a function of resident status, sex, age, or season. Although we did find that coyotes use areas of high human activity, we found little evidence that coyotes widely utilized areas associated with human development across the landscape.
Download or read book Coyote written by University of New Brunswick. Wildlife Research Unit and published by Fredericton, N.B. : Wildlife Research Unit, University of New Brunswick. This book was released on 1992 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Analyses of Coyote canis Latrans Consumption of Anthropogenic Material and Dietary Composition in Urban and Non urban Habitats written by Audrey A. Hayes and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coyotes are a generalist species that have adapted to nearly every terrestrial habitat in the United States. The species' success is heavily attributed to their omnivorous diets and tolerance for environments that are regularly disturbed. Because the larger predator species that typically act as apex predators are sensitive to highly fragmented landscapes, the coyote is the functioning apex predator in many ecosystems where large predators, such as wolves, have been extirpated. The coyotes' ecological role in urban ecosystems has received much attention in the last few decades as the species' presence in cities and suburbs has increased, along with human-coyote conflicts. Anthropogenic supplementation, and reliance on anthropogenic food in particular, is regularly cited as the reason for coyotes being in urban areas. However, the inconsistencies reported in the literature indicate that the mechanisms driving coyotes into urban areas may be more complex than coyotes' potential attraction to human food. Coyotes are foragers and scavengers whose diets reflect the seasonal and local availability of food, where prey items that are more abundant are likely to be encountered and consumed more frequently than prey that are hard to find. This is also what makes coyotes so successful in colonizing most types of habitats. The purpose of this study was to investigate how coyotes' consumption of anthropogenic food varies between urban and non-urban habitats and if their consumption of anthropogenic food is selective or just a reflection of its increased availability in urban habitats. I conducted a meta-analysis on coyote dietary studies from 1975 to 2020 to identify trends in anthropogenic consumption and dietary composition in relation to habitat type, geographic region, season, and year of study. I also conducted a field study with scent-baited camera traps and scat analyses to test if coyotes in the Dayton area metroparks were attracted to anthropogenic food to the same degree as natural food, and to test if this attraction differed between urban and rural populations as a potential explanation for the increased prevalence of coyotes in urban areas. The scats were analyzed for [delta]13C and [delta]15N stable isotope ratios so that stable isotope mixing models could be used to estimate urban and rural coyote diet compositions from local prey isotope values. The results from the meta-analysis showed that coyote consumption of anthropogenic food is significantly higher in urban and agricultural habitats when compared to non-urban habitats (p
