Animal Biotelemetry

Table 2 Size of MCP (minimum convex polygon) home range in km for each python radio- and GPS-tracked in Everglades National Park, South Florida, USA, with associated habitat types

From: Home range, habitat use, and movement patterns of non-native Burmese pythons in Everglades National Park, Florida, USA

	Habitat type
Python	Upland forest pineland	Slough	Tree islands	Coastal	Lowland forest	Disturbed	Marsh prairie	Other	Total area (km ² )
7	0.2 (1.2)	18.3 (96.8)	0.4 (2.0)	0	0	0	0	0	18.9
11	0	0.5 (13.8)	0	3.3 (86.2)	0	0	0	0	3.8
12	0	41.6 (91.7)	0.4 (0.9 0)	0.6 (1.3)	0.01 (0.02)	0	0	0.07 (0.16)	45.3
13	0	0.4 (3.8)	0	11.1 (96.2)	0	0	0	0	11.5
14		0.2 (2.7)		5.8 (97.2)	0	0	0	0	6.0
15	0.04 (0.2)	23.1 (93.5)	1.1 (4.4)	0.5 (2.0)	0	0	0	0	24.8
17	7.3 (23.5 )	22.3 (71.8)	0.8 (2.6)	0.6 (2.0)	0	0.04 (0.14)	0	0	31.1
18	7.7 (8.8)	77.8 (89.0)	1.4 (1.6)	0.5 (0.6)	0	0.04 (0.05)	0	0	87.4
22	0	2.2 (9.6)	0	19.6 (85.4)	0	0	0	1.2 (5.0)	23.0
23	0.06 (0.2)	33.8 (97.4)	0.8 (2.4)	0	0	0	0	0	34.6
25	0.3 (1.4)	19.2 (94.1)	0.7 (3.4)	0.2 (1.1)	0	0	0	0	20.4
27	0.05 (0.6)	4.5 (48.7)	0.03 (0.3)	1.2 (13.4)	2.2 (23.9)	0.2 (1.6)	1.1 (11.5)	0	9.3
28	0	0.2 (10.5)	0	1.6 (89.5)	0	0	0	0	1.7
29	0	2.8 (100.0)	0	0	0	0	0	0	2.8
30	1.5 (5.7)	17.5 (66.3)	0.1 (0.2)	7.3 (27.7)	0	0.02 (0.08)	0	0	26.4
31	0.1 (0.7)	0.5 (4.0)	0	11.7 (95.3)	0	0	0	0	12.2
41^a	0.3 (1.1)	20.9 (90.3)	0.6 (2.4)	1.4 (5.9)	0 (0)	0 (0.2)	0 (0)	0 (0.1)	23.1
51^a	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0.2 (100)	0 (0)	0.2
52^a	0 (0)	0.1 (25)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0.3)	0 (0.6)	0.3 (74.1)	0 (0)	0.5

Values in parentheses are % of total home range area, and those in bold are >50.0% of the total home range. ^aGPS-tracked pythons.

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