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1 November 2003 THE BURDEN OF CO-OCCUPANCY: INTRASPECIFIC RESOURCE COMPETITION AND SPACING PATTERNS IN AMERICAN MINK, MUSTELA VISON
Nobuyuki Yamaguchi, David W. Macdonald
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Abstract

Live-trapping and radiotracking of American mink (Mustela vison) on 24 km of the River Thames, United Kingdom, revealed range sizes (male: 6.8 km, female: 2.7 km), numbers of other mink found in the range of each male (0.98 males, 1.95 females) and each female (1.18 males, 0.32 females), and range overlaps between dyads of males (88.2%), a male and a female (male: 32.6%, female: 69.1%), and females (66.3%). We used these data to estimate the potential energetic burden of conspecifics on each other. As a monthly average, cohabiting males and other females take an estimated 30% and 9%, respectively, of the total energy consumption by mink within the range of each female. Similarly, cohabiting males and females consume an estimated 21% and 40%, respectively, of the energy in each male's range. Intraspecific resource depression may force both sexes, especially males, to maintain larger ranges. We suggest that, in the case of American mink, intraspecific prey-resource competition affects the range sizes of both sexes.

Nobuyuki Yamaguchi and David W. Macdonald "THE BURDEN OF CO-OCCUPANCY: INTRASPECIFIC RESOURCE COMPETITION AND SPACING PATTERNS IN AMERICAN MINK, MUSTELA VISON," Journal of Mammalogy 84(4), 1341-1355, (1 November 2003). https://doi.org/10.1644/1545-1542(2003)084<1341:TBOCIR>2.0.CO;2
Accepted: 27 November 2002; Published: 1 November 2003
KEYWORDS
American mink
home range
intrasexual territoriality
intraspecific competition
lowland England
Mustela vison
resource dispersion
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