Benhamou S
CNRS, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Fonctionnelles, 13402 Marseille Cédex 9, France.
Behav Processes. 1991 Jan;22(3):235-50. doi: 10.1016/0376-6357(91)90097-J.
The aim of this study was to quantify the movements of the wood mouse Apodemus sylvaticus in its home range. The movements were recorded using a new tracking method: it consisted of tracking a visually tagged wood mouse by a telescope from an observation tower and automatically recording the successive positions of this telescope (corresponding to the successive positions of the wood mouse in the field). Statistical analysis of 51 recorded movements, involving 10 wood mice, was carried out. The characteristics of the general movement patterns fitted a first order correlated random walk model. Furthermore, the detailed structure of paths was quantified. An analysis of variance showed that an individual factor was involved in metric and temporal movement characteristics but not in the statistical structure of the paths. Lastly, examination of all the movements of 6 wood mice, with for which at least 4 different paths were recorded, revealed their space use patterns within their home ranges.
本研究的目的是量化林姬鼠在其活动范围内的移动情况。移动情况通过一种新的追踪方法进行记录：该方法包括从观察塔用望远镜追踪一只带有视觉标记的林姬鼠，并自动记录该望远镜的连续位置（对应于林姬鼠在野外的连续位置）。对涉及10只林姬鼠的51次记录移动进行了统计分析。一般移动模式的特征符合一阶相关随机游走模型。此外，还对路径的详细结构进行了量化。方差分析表明，个体因素参与了移动的度量和时间特征，但不参与路径的统计结构。最后，对6只林姬鼠的所有移动进行检查，这些林姬鼠至少记录了4条不同路径，揭示了它们在活动范围内的空间利用模式。
