Home Range of Reevese′s Butterfly Lizard (Leiolepis reevesii) in the Breeding Season at Barren Slope Habitat of Changsa Town, Wenchang City, Hainan
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①College of Life Sciences,Hainan Normal University,①College of Life Sciences,Hainan Normal University;②School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084;,①College of Life Sciences,Hainan Normal University,①College of Life Sciences,Hainan Normal University;③Hainan Jiaji Middle School, Qionghai 571400,①College of Life Sciences,Hainan Normal University,①College of Life Sciences,Hainan Normal University

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    To master the home range size of reevese’s butterfly lizard and whether there exists a core area in each home range and the intrasexual overlap degree of home range and core area during the breeding season, 13 individuals were tracked by radio telemetry in the period of March to May 2010 and 2011 in the barren slope habitat of Wenchang, Hainan Island, China. The home range size and overlap degree of each individuals were calculated by minimum convex polygon (100% MCP) and fixed kernel (95%, 75% and 50% FK) methods. The results indicate that the 100% MCP home range of males (14091.6±5718.0m2) was significantly larger than that of females (253.3±106.5m2)(t=4.064, df=11, P=0.002). Males had significantly larger 95% FK (10707.8±2388.5m2) and 75% FK (3282.7±1022.8m2) home range than females (379.1±74.1m2 and 172.1±37.9m2). The home range length of males (205.8±52.5m) was significantly larger than that of females (25.0±2.0m) (t=5.781, df=11, P=0.034). There existed a apparent core area in the home range for all individuals, males (1380.5±429.1m2) had significantly larger core area than females (80.2±18.5m2) (t=5.088, df=11, P<0.001), and the ratio of core area to 100% MCP home range of males (10.9±3.9%) was significantly lower than that of females (33.3±6.1%) (t=-7.834, df=11, P<0.001). There were significant linear correlations between 100% MCP home range and SVL of males (n=10, r=0.815, P=0.004) and females (n=3, r=0.998, P=0.044), and between 100% MCP home range and body mass of males (n=10, r=0.683, P=0.029). The 100% MCP home range overlap degree of males (0.26±0.17) was significantly lower than that of females (0.66±0.02) (t=-3.372, df=34, P=0.002), and the core area overlap degree of males and females was 0.02±0.02 and 0.01 respectively.

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YANG Jian-Ding, CHEN Mao, WANG Li-Jun, ZHOU Jian-Fen, WANG Cheng-Hua, HU Jing. 2015. Home Range of Reevese′s Butterfly Lizard (Leiolepis reevesii) in the Breeding Season at Barren Slope Habitat of Changsa Town, Wenchang City, Hainan. Chinese Journal of Zoology, 50(6): 855-865.

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  • Received:February 02,2015
  • Revised:September 29,2015
  • Adopted:September 25,2015
  • Online: November 24,2015
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