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Table 7 Average distances (±SD) from the nearest landscape feature to dens and control points in Obihiro

From: Where to deliver baits for deworming urban red foxes for Echinococcus multilocularis control: new protocol for micro-habitat modeling of fox denning requirements

Linear distance parameter

Den site

Control point

  p

Average distance (m)

 n

Average distance (m)

  n

L-wroad

173 (±132)

35

167 (±103)

120

0.9676

L-nroad

64 (±56)

35

61 (±51)

120

0.9216

L-water

141 (±185)

35

157 (±225)

120

0.0990

L-river

288 (±387)

35

722 (±1003)

120

0.0037*

L-ocpbl

200 (±238)

35

195 (±108)

120

0.0719

L-vctbl

110 (±93)

35

109 (±86)

120

0.9488

L-farm

468 (±390)

35

531 (±480)

120

0.8552

L-green

115 (±176)

35

272 (±309)

120

0.0027*

L-blank

246 (±168)

35

222 (±248)

120

0.0673

  1. *p < 0.05.
  2. p indicates the significance probability when the den sites and control points were compared by Mann–Whitney U test.