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

Table 8 Average distances (±SD) from the nearest landscape feature to dens and control points in Sapporo

Linear distance parameter	Den site		Control point		p
Linear distance parameter	Average distance (m)	n	Average distance (m)	n	p
L-wroad	306 (±364)	65	196 (±121)	730	0.3091
L-nroad	86 (±75)	65	77 (±42)	730	0.5728
L-water	370 (±514)	65	362 (±591)	730	0.7242
L-river	1024 (±996)	65	2446 (±1766)	730	< 0.0001*
L-ocpbl	152 (±130)	65	143 (±84)	730	0.3728
L-vctbl	111 (±108)	65	79 (±57)	730	0.0941
L-farm	352 (±661)	65	1747 (±1364)	730	< 0.0001*
L-green	155 (±425)	65	178 (±197)	730	< 0.0001*
L-blank	106 (±89)	65	93 (±75)	730	0.3470

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

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