Habitat Use in Free-Ranging Pine Snakes, Pituophis melanoleucus, in New Jersey Pine Barrens
Burger JW and Zappalorti RT. 1988. Habitat Use in Free-Ranging Pine Snakes, Pituophis melanoleucus, in New Jersey Pine Barrens. Herpetologica. 44(1):48-55
Five male and five female pine snakes (Pituophis melanoleucus ) were fitted with radio transmitters for 1 yr in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Habitat selection by radio-tracked snakes was compared with that of 51 hand-captured snakes located by searching the same study area in the previous 8 yr. Habitat selection of radio-tracked snakes (but not activity patterns) differed from that of the hand-captured snakes, and from that of points distributed randomly in the available habitat. Radio-tracked pine snakes selected pine-oak forests and spent equal time in undisturbed and disturbed habitats.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Burger, Joanna; Zappalorti, Robert
- Units
- PINE
- Keywords
- Animal Studies, Ecology, Habitat Use, northern pine snake (Pituophis melanoleucus), Research Article