Seasonal movements and habitat use of African buffalo in Ruaha National Park, Tanzania

BMC Ecology

Table 1 Size (in km²) of the 95% and 50% isopleth of the utilization distribution estimated using Brownian Bridge Models (as an approximation of home range sizes), of each collared buffalo in Ruaha National Park, Tanzania in the rainy (November–May) and dry (June–October) seasons as well as overall (entire time period)

Location collared		MWG	MWG	MWG	MWG	TKM	TKM	TKM/JGM	JGM	JGM	JGM	JGM
Time period	% use	SAT1497	SAT1498	SAT1503	SAT1494	SAT1492	SAT1493	SAT1495	SAT1496	SAT1499	SAT1501	SAT1502
Oct14–May15	95	219	306	290	254	–	205	86	215	246	174	253
Oct14–May15	50	47	59	67	55	–	30	12	44	46	39	49
Jun15–Oct15	95	129	137	136	142	–	98	9	109	100	112	98
Jun15–Oct15	50	27	29	27^a	28	–	35	1	28	23	28	23
Nov15–May16	95	84	183	–	256	203	101	50	247	203	254	183
Nov15–May16	50	15	25	–	38	42	13	10^a	57	44	60	42
Jun16–Oct16	95	80	35	–	149	139	51	–	109	96		100
Jun16–Oct16	50	16^a	6^a	–	21^a	27	8^b	–	27^a	23^a		24^a
Nov16–Apr17	95	–	–	–	–	345	–	–	–	–	–	–
Nov16–Apr17	50	–	–	–	–	67^a	–	–	–	–	–	–
Entire time period	95	357	488	290	601	296	304	73	289	283	297	283
Entire time period	50	67	88	67	123	68	47	7	63	58	63	58
Month ended^a		Sept 16	Aug 16	Oct 15	Oct 16	Apr 17	Nov 16	Jan 16	Oct 16	Sept 16	May 16	Oct 16

The space use by year is shown in order to compare variations between seasons and years. MWG = Mwagusi, TKM = TelekiMboga, JGM = Jongomero
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^aMonth ended: The last month that the collar was emitting points. For example, the collar SAT 1497 ceased working in September 2016
^bFor SAT 1493, the data from November 2016 is included in the “entire time period” but not in the Jun 16–Oct 16 time window

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