Life Sciences Commons^™

Space Use By Resident And Transient Coyotes In An Urban–Rural Landscape Mosaic, N. Mitchell, M. W. Strohbach, R. Pratt, W. C. Finn, Eric G. Strauss

Center for Urban Resilience Scholarship

Context. Coyotes (Canis latrans) have adapted successfully to human landscape alteration in the past 150 years and in recent decades have successfully moved into urban areas. While this causes concern about human–wildlife conflicts, research also suggests that coyotes tend to avoid humans and human activity in urban areas. For improving management, a better understanding of space use by coyotes is needed.

Aims. To study how coyote social behaviour influences fine-scale space use in urban areas we present results from an extensive, multi-year GPS telemetry study (2005–13). The study area in coastal Rhode Island is a mosaic of rural, …