<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">de Miguel, Francisco</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Valencia, Ana</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Arroyo, Marta</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Monclus, Raquel</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF SCENT MARKS IN THE RED FOX (VULPES VULPES L.): DO RED FOXES SELECT CERTAIN PLANTS AS SIGNAL POSTS?</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">POLISH JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">chemical communication</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">red fox Vulpes vulpes</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">scent marking</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">territorial behaviour</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009///</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">57</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">605 - 609</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chemical signals are widely used in inter and intraspecific communication in many animals. The importance of scent marks in communication has led to a variety of strategies in animals to increase the detectability and persistence of their scent marks. We studied the scent marking of foxes in relation to the role of plants as scent posts in a suburban Mediterranean forest in Madrid. Twice a month, from October 2005 to April 2006, we prospected 16 fixed 50 x 50 m plots, randomly distributed along the study area. We registered all fox faeces and their association to different plants, as well as the potential availability of the different plant species in our study area. Our results indicate that faeces were associated with plants mainly in the clearings, foxes preferred wooden species to grasses as scent posts and holm oak shrubs and rockroses to other wooden species. These data suggest that red foxes select certain plants as substrates for their faeces and pose the possibility that they are guided by searching images when looking for scent posts.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The following values have no corresponding Zotero field:&lt;br/&gt;pub-location: DZIEKANOW LESNY NEAR WARSAW, 05-092 LOMIANKI, POLAND&lt;br/&gt;publisher: POLISH ACAD SCIENCES INST ECOLOGY</style></notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Espírito-Santo, C.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ROSALINO, LUIS M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Santos-Reis, Margarida</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Factors affecting the placement of common genet latrine sites in a Mediterranean landscape in Portugal</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal of mammalogy</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">common genets</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">genetta genetta</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">latrines</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">mediterranean landscape</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Portugal</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">scent marking</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2007</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2007///</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.asmjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1644/05-MAMM-A-343R3.1</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">88</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">201 - 207</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">In addition to the role of latrine sites as areas for deposition of feces, they may play roles in territoriality, sexual attraction, warning and defense behaviors, and regulation of physiological functions. Several carnivores, such as the common genet (Genetta genetta) use latrines as stations for scent communication. We describe the factors influencing the placement and use of latrine sites by a Mediterranean population of common genets inhabiting cork oak woodlands in southwestern Portugal. Using logistical regression analysis, we found a higher probability of finding latrines in areas with high understory height and diversity of landscape units, low human disturbance and accessibility, and proximity to potential refuges and other latrines. An exploratory univariate analysis showed that latrines were located primarily in conspicuously high features within the landscape such as in old-growth cork oak trees. Their use was associated with low human disturbance, inaccessibility, and high understory cover. Our results suggest that forest managers should preserve some old trees in oak woodlands, because these trees have a fundamental role in scent communication among genets (latrines), as well as serve as resting sites.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></issue></record></records></xml>