Definition of Home range

1. Noun. The area in which an animal normally ranges.

Exact synonyms: Home Territory
Generic synonyms: Range

Lexicographical Neighbors of Home Range

home is where the heart is
home is where you hang your hat
home key
home loan
home lot
home movie
home movies
home nursing
home office
home oxygen therapy
home page
home pages
home plate
home plates
home port
home range (current term)
home reserve
home row
home rule
home ruler
home runs
home school
home schooled
home schooling
home schools
home shopping
home side
home sides
home slice

Literary usage of Home range

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Marten, Fisher, Lynx, and Wolverine: Survey Methods for Their Detection by William J. Zielinski, Thomas E. Kucera (1998)
"home range Variation in home range Attributes home ranges of American martens, usually in the sense used by Burt (1943), have been described for many study ..."

2. The California Spotted Owl: A Technical Assessment of Its Current Status. by Jared Verner (1994)
"Results Home-Range Size Eleven females and 10 males were radio-tracked between 26 April ... To compare home-range sizes among sites and between seasons, ..."

3. The Santa Rita Experimental Range: History and Annotated Bibliography (1903 by Alvin L. Medina (1997)
"home range and movement of five mule deer in a semidesert grass-shrub community. ... home range averaged 2.9 square miles but varied for individual deer by ..."

4. Fire Effects Information System: User's Guide by William C. Fischer, Melanie Miller, Cameron M. Johnston, Jane K. Smith (1998)
"home range - Bobcat home range estimates vary from 0.23 square mile (0.6 sq km) for ... Female bobcats showed reductions in their home range size up to 70 ..."

5. Life After Logging: Reconciling Wildlife Conservation and Production by E. Meijaard (2005)
"Movements and migration Most of home range used for both foraging and resting (Colón 1999); day ranges (resting areas) and night ranges (foraging areas) not ..."

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