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    Home Range and Movements of the Eastern Cottontail in Kansas
    Home Range and Movements of the Eastern Cottontail in Kansas
    Home Range and Movements of the Eastern Cottontail in Kansas
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    Home Range and Movements of the Eastern Cottontail in Kansas

    By Donald W. Janes

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Home Range and Movements of the Eastern Cottontail in Kansas - Donald W. Janes

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      Title: Home Range and Movements of the Eastern Cottontail in Kansas

      Author: Donald W. Janes

      Release Date: August 14, 2009 [EBook #29688]

      Language: English

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      University of Kansas Publications

      Museum of Natural History

      Vol. 10, No. 7, pp. 553-572, 4 pls., 3 figs.

      May 4, 1959

      Home Range and Movements of the Eastern Cottontail in Kansas

      By

      DONALD W. JANES

      University of Kansas

      Lawrence

      1959

      University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History

      Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch,

      Robert W. Wilson

      Volume 10, No. 7, pp. 553-572, 4 pls., 3 figs.

      Published May 4, 1959

      University of Kansas

      Lawrence, Kansas

      PRINTED IN

      THE STATE PRINTING PLANT

      TOPEKA, KANSAS

      1959

      Home Range and Movements

      of the Eastern Cottontail in Kansas

      By

      DONALD W. JANES

      INTRODUCTION

      A knowledge of the home range and movements of the cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) is one of the most important prerequisites for estimating effectively its numbers and managing its populations. By comparing results obtained from different methods, previously used, for determining the size of the home range I have attempted to develop a more valid procedure.

      The study here reported upon was made on the University of Kansas Natural History Reservation (Sec. 4, T. 12S, R. 20E), the northeasternmost section of Douglas County, Kansas, approximately 6½ miles north-northeast of the University campus at Lawrence. The 590-acre reservation, situated in the ecotone between the eastern deciduous forests and the prairie of the Great Plains near the north edge of the Kansas River Valley, has been protected as a natural area since 1948 (Fitch, 1952). It consists of tree-covered slopes, and flat grass-covered hilltops and valleys. Two limestone outcrops follow the contours about five and 20 feet below the tops of the hills.

      The 90-acre study area consists of a valley bordered on the north by a wooded slope and on the southeast by another wooded slope adjacent to a narrow hilltop, east of which is another wooded slope. The area is thus an alternating series of three wooded slopes and two grass-covered, relatively level areas.

      The wooded slopes rise from the valley for about 125 feet at a grade of approximately 16 per cent. There is a sharp increase in grade to 36 per cent 100 feet below the top of the hills. A natural terrace 50 feet to 100 feet wide parallels the hilltop at the base of the 36 per cent incline.

      The vegetation of the northwest-facing wooded slopes has been described by Packard (1956). It consists of American elm (Ulmus americana), shagbark hickory (Carya ovata), chestnut oak (Quercus muehlenbergii), black oak (Quercus velutina), and black walnut (Juglans nigra), in that order of dominance.

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