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Preliminary analysis of wolf's movement traced by the GPS technology in relation to habitats, alitude and inclination

The purpose of this study was to analyze preliminary results and to determine the frequency and types of habitats used by the wolf marked with GPS collar. The wolf was captured and marked in Jelovac above village Krasno in Lika region. In the first 18 days after the marking, 202 GPS coordinates were collected. The area of wolf's movement was 156 square kilometers and 11 different types of habitats were determined. They participate by following percentages: dinaric beech and fir forests (30, 4%), mesophyllous and neutrophilous beech forests (29, 8%), mosaics of cultivated areas (20, 5%), subatlantic messophyllous grasslands and mountain meadows (7, 2%), submountain beech forests (4, 0%), european dry heaths and mat-grass swards (3, 7%), submediterranean and epimediterranean dry grasslands (3, 1%), active village areas (0, 9%), south-eastern Alpine - Illyrian thermophilous beech forest (0, 2%), dead waters (0, 2%), and fir forests (0, 1%). Wolf's positions were registrated on nine types of habitats, but not in the fir forests and dead waters habitats.

wolf; GPS; habitat; Croatia

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