At present there is a poverty of knowledge concerning methods for determining the precise homeranges of small mammals.
A comparison of certain methods of measuring ranges of small mammals.
Diagrams showing estimated homeranges of six individuals of two species of Peromyscus, and location of these ranges in the trapping grid.
Rather, the ranges tended to follow parts of vegetational zones.
Sizes of home ranges of adult and non-adult males of this species did not differ significantly.
However, no difference was demonstrable in mean sizes of rangesbetween males, or between females, of the two species.
In each case no difference was demonstrable in sizes of ranges between the species.
No differences were found when ranges of adult males, or adult females, of both species were compared.
When the home ranges for all females or males of one species are drawn on a single map of the trapping grid, almost every one of their ranges overlaps with the range of at least one other mouse.
TABLE 2--Summary of Data from Experiments in Calculating Home Ranges for an Artificial Population.
Table 3 shows estimations of the home ranges of males and females of each species of Peromyscus.
The calculation of density of each species within the trapping grid is dependent upon the precision with which the home ranges of individuals can be estimated.
At this time, home ranges of small rodents can not be measured with great precision, therefore any such calculations are, at best, only approximations.
Sight and hearing would be perfect, but only within certain ranges and distances; memory would be perfect in reference to every thing comprehended and understood.
The eye rangesover the fairest portion of Switzerland.
From this point the eye ranges over the plain of Athens, bounded on one side by mountains, and on the other by the sea.
Yet several hundred torpedoes must have been discharged, most of them at ranges within 5,000 yards.
Much of the wealth of the country consisted in the huge flocks of llamas and alpacas, and the wild huanacos and vicuñas which roamed freely over the frozen ranges of the Cordilleras.
The ranges of the two species do not overlap in the strict sense but interdigitate in a parapatric type of distribution.
Sangre De Cristo and Culebra ranges and is separated from T.
West of Rickett about the same distance as Morgan Hills, ran the Wago Mountains, low, rolling ranges which would hardly form an impediment for a horseman.
The sign of both rabbit and coyote veered suddenly, and again the trail told the reason clearly--the big print of a lobo's paw, that gray ghost which haunts the ranges with the wisest brain and the swiftest feet in the West.
Fourth day out--Cumberland Gap in the distance--a great indenture in the rangesof Cumberland mountains.
The Yankees had fortified on two ranges of hills, leaving a gap in their breastworks in the valley entirely unfortified and unprotected.
On the other side the mountains divide into two distinct ranges and gradually bear away from each other until they reach a distance of three miles from crest to crest.
These early scientists represented the earth as a vast circular plain, intersected by high mountain ranges and surrounded by a large river, with other mountain chains which lost themselves in an infinite ocean.
But his cheeks were crimson, his eyes intensely black and sparkling, his teeth, glittering ranges of shaded ivory.
Before the lectern, across and down the great chamber, were ranges of carven benches, among which were lamps of bronze, darkened and green about the reliefs and corrugations on the bowls, depending from chains or set about on tripods.
The eastern and larger part of the state belongs to the coastal plain, in great part low and swampy, with large areas of sand barrens, and broken by isolated groups and ranges of hills.
The western border of the state is traversed by low ranges of mountains forming a northward continuation of the Serra do Mar.
The Afar country is part of the East African rift-valley, and in the southern parts of the valley its surface is diversified by ranges of hills, frequently volcanic, and by lakes.
It is characterized by rich, well-watered valleys, verdant plains and flat-topped hills with steep sides, running in ranges or isolated.
The number of toes ranges from four to one in the fore-foot, and from three to one in the hind-foot.
The reason for the infrequency of the explosive effects in these wars is due to the fact that the battles were fought in the open at the ordinary battle ranges beyond the zone of explosive effects.
The wounds shown in plates 35 and 39 represent conditions similar to those causing this wound, except that the ranges were progressively greater.
Whole tiers of counties are underlaid with coal, and the mountain ranges are impregnated in all their rifts with iron and lead, silver and gold.
Certainly no four hundred miles of mountain ranges have produced as many mines of immense yields and so many mining prospects as the suggestions of science and practical observation make those of Utah appear.
The sounds proceeded from a strongly-built stone hut, protected on three sides from wind and rain, and so placed that the water from the ranges rolled past without injuring it.
He smiled cynically as his memory ran back over those other women he had seen in cow-towns and wondered how it was that the men of the ranges could rise to a chivalry that was famed.
Down on the big ranges lying closer to the Gulf the winter was so mild as to seem but a brief interruption of summer.
Then came the Norther and in the three weeks of devastating cold and high winds the Kansas ranges were swept clean of cattle, and even the ranges in the South were badly crippled.
Plea ranges in sense from a prayer for favor or pardon to an attempt at full vindication.
Awe is the yielding of the mind to something supremely grand in character or formidable in power, andranges from apprehension or dread to reverent worship.
Diurnal is more exact in all its uses; a diurnal flower opens or blooms only in daylight; a diurnal bird or animal flies or ranges only by day: in contradistinction to nocturnal flowers, birds, etc.
As far as possible the language of the original describer of the new subspecies of birds is here quoted, while the Ranges are mainly from the A.
Higher mountain ranges of western United States; breeds from northern New Mexico, Arizona, and southeastern California north to Wyoming and southern British Columbia; winters from southern California and western Texas into Mexico.
The ranges of the races of this bird (now known as Spruce Partridge, rather than Spruce Grouse) are given in the A.
The Crows and Jays, by varying their food with the season, are rarely at loss for supplies of one kind or another and most species are represented throughout their ranges at all times of the year.
Southern coast ranges and Sierra Nevada of California and western Nevada, from Fort Crook south to northern Lower California.
Southern Rocky Mountains; north to southern Wyoming; west to Uintah Mountains, in eastern Utah, and the higher ranges of northwestern Arizona; south to New Mexico.
California, except: desertranges and eastern slope of Sierra Nevada, coast region north of Marin Co.
The Wren-Tits have been revised and their ranges more correctly defined, and to the two forms given two more have been added.
Coast ranges of southern California from Monterey Bay, south to Lower California and east to Arizona" (Bailey).
Northern Rocky Mountains, from northwestern Montana to the coast ranges of Oregon and Washington, and northward in British America, reaching the Pacific coast of southern Alaska (latitude 60A deg.
We see innumerable sub-divisions of animals and plants, but we see no other such great subdivision of organic life as that whereby it ranges itself, for the most part readily, as either animal or vegetable.
His only concession to the state of affairs had been an acknowledgment under coercion that the cattle ranges had been overstocked, and that outside cattle would not be permitted to enter, at least for the coming season.
Then the basin and ranges above the Power Company are important.
Unless we can fat our cattle on the summer ranges in the high mountains, we can't do business.
They've taken their cattle back to the summer ranges in the high mountains.
Signal smokes over distant ranges rose straight up, and died; but never could they discover where the fire had been burned.
And even Plant, he's sent old California John back to look over what shape the ranges are in.
They got all their lumber from the Coast ranges and the lower hills.
They's a thousand head of Wright's cattle been drove in on our rangesthis year," said he.
He ain't no right in the mountains, and the ranges are overstocked.
You must do, then, in the vat part of the work which can be done on the rangeswhen the weather is favorable.
A cheese that would become worthless on the ranges in cold, wet weather, may turn out pretty fair in "dog days.
The lower ranges seem as though painted, in films of airiest and palest azure, upon china; and then comes the broad, green champaign, flecked with villages and farms.
The opulent abundance of the plain contrasts with the severity of mountain ranges desolately grand; and the name of each of all those cities thrills the heart with memories.
The quarter of the town west of the Rio Calanchas is called la otra banda; it is the most commercial part; merchandize is everywhere exhibited, and ranges of shops form the streets.
These valleys are intersected at right angles by an infinite number of small ravines, scooped out by the torrents: the consequence is, that the lateral ranges are transformed into so many rows of paps, some round and others pyramidal.
These effects are the same, whether the caverns form one long and continued range, or several of these ranges lie one over another, as happens almost exclusively in gypseous mountains.
The majesty of the site consists in its elevation above the level of the sea, in the profound solitude of these lofty regions, and in the immense space over which the eye rangesfrom the summit of the mountain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ranges" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
