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Home Range

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-013395

1. The area to which an animal confines its activities. (PERTAINING TO ECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENTS)

2. The undefended area in which an animal performs its daily activities: primarily foraging, but also finding shelter, mating, etc.; this is opposed to a territory which is defended and is generally smaller than a home range.

3. An area to which an individual organism restricts most of its usual activities.

4. The geographic area in which a plant or animal lives.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-013395
FieldEnvironment
SubjectEcosystems
ReferencesWaste and Cleanup Risk Assessment Glossary; Ecological Risk Assessment Glossary of Terms; Chesapeake Bay Glossary
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-013395",
  "term": "Home Range",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. The area to which an animal confines its activities. (PERTAINING TO ECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENTS)\n\n2. The undefended area in which an animal performs its daily activities: primarily foraging, but also finding shelter, mating, etc.; this is opposed to a territory which is defended and is generally smaller than a home range.\n\n3. An area to which an individual organism restricts most of its usual activities.\n\n4. The geographic area in which a plant or animal lives.",
  "subject": "Ecosystems",
  "references": [
    "Waste and Cleanup Risk Assessment Glossary",
    "Ecological Risk Assessment Glossary of Terms",
    "Chesapeake Bay Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/home-range/"
}

Record 13,395 of 30,736 in Environment terminology (MLC-0121). Request the full dataset.