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| Jerosch, S.; G”tz, M. | |
| Ist die offene Kulturlandschaft ein Wildkatzenlebensraum? - Erste Ergebnisse einer Telemetriestudie in einem Verbundlebensraum. (Is the open cultural landscape a habitat for wildcats? - First results from a telemetry study in composite habitat) | |
| 2011 Beitr„ge zur Jagd- und Wildforschung (36): 369-376 | |
Due to fragmentated forest habitats parts of metapopulations of European wildcat are exposed to genetic isolation and hybridisation in Europe. So far investigations on wildcat ecology were mainly conducted in forest habitats within the core distributions and detailed information on migration and population exchange is still lacking. Since May 2010 a telemetry study takes place between two wildcat populated forests in an open cultivated landscape. Until December 2010 two male and one female wildcat were radio-tracked in this habitat. While the female is strongly bounded to forests, first results show habitat preferences of the two males to shelter landscape structures like hedges, shrubs and riparian woodlands. But also colza as one of the dominated field crops were intensively used by the males. Size of males home ranges correspond with forest data (1.796 ha/2.089 ha, MCP 100%) while the female's home range is extremely small (164 ha, MCP 100%). While two of the investigated individual core areas are completely lcoated within the open landscape between the two large forests, small parts of one male's core area also contains the forest edge. Further investigations are necessary to get profound findings of population structure and habitat preference of resident and transient wildcats in an open and agriculture dominated landscape. |
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