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. 2019 Mar 2;30(3):821–829. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arz019

Table 2.

Home range and core area size and complexity of coyotes (Canis latrans) across 3 urban landscapes within the Chicago metropolitan area, USA, from 2008 to 2017 based on GPS location data collected every 7.5 h

Complexityb
Urban landscape Home rangea km2 (SE) Core areaa km2 (SE) Home range (SE) Core area (SE) Noncontiguous polygonsc (range)
Natural fragment (n = 7) 3.24 (0.32) 0.65 (0.08) 0.20 (0.03) 0.35 (0.03) 1.29 (1–2)
Suburban (n = 7) 2.31 (1.11) 0.22 (0.10) 0.43 (0.06) 0.16 (0.03) 2.14 (1–5)
Highly urbanized (n = 9) 7.05 (2.42) 0.78 (0.31) 0.65 (0.07) 0.30 (0.03) 1.89 (1–4)

aWe calculated core area (50% isopleth) and home range (95% isopleth) with the LoCoH in the adehabitatHR package (Calenge 2006) in R (R Core Team 2018).

bWe calculated home range and core area complexity index using the formula: (MCP − LoCoH)/MCP, where MCP is the 95% (50%) MCP.

cNoncontiguous polygons represent an additional index of home range complexity.