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Home range may be defined as the area over which an animal normally travels. Gerking (1950, 1953) found that longear sunfish (Lepomis megalotis)1, rock bass (Ambloplites rupestris), and green sunfish (Lepomis cyanellus) in two Indiana streams moved about very little from one year to the next. These sunfishes were estimated to have remained within a home range of 100–200 linear feet of stream. The home ranges of smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieui) and spotted bass (Micropterus punctulatus) were believed to range from 200–400 linear feet of stream. In a later paper, Gerking (1959) listed 33 species of fishes which exhibit restricted movement or occupy home ranges.
These studies were aided by grants from the U.S. Public Health Service (National Institutes of Health, RG-7125), National Science Foundation (G-10697), and the Sport Fishing Institute, Washington, D. C.
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Gunning, G.E. (1963). The Concepts of Home Range and Homing in Stream Fishes. In: Autrum, H., et al. Orientierung der Tiere / Animal Orientation. Ergebnisse der Biologie / Advances in Biology, vol 26. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-99872-0_18
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