Reference List and Abstracts for Fox Squirrel   (Procite)

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1.   Adam, C. I. G. The fox squirrel in Saskatchewan.  Blue Jay. 1984; 42 (4):241-246

This paper reports the Fox Squirrel specimens and give selected sight records to May 1, 1984.         Fox Squirrels appear to have invaded Saskatchewan from Manitoba and North Dakota, and they will probably continue to do so, paralleling the situation in provinces for several years. The purpose of this paper is to alert Saskatchewan residents to the presence of this relatively new species, and to speculate on means of its arrival and dispersal.

2. Adams, C. E. Measurement and characteristics of Fox Squirrels.  The American Midland Naturalist.1976;    95: 211-215.

Fox Squirrel home range statistic were determined using radio telementary techniques.  Thirty-eight squirrels were radio-tracked  for a mean of 21 days.  The mean number of fixed points obtained for each squirrel was 32.   Fox Squirrel home ranges were better described as ellipses than circles or polygons.  The estimated home range size of male fox squirrels (n =20, x =7.56 ha) was over twice as large as the mean home range size of females (n =17, x =3.55 ha).   There appeared to be a positive relationship between the mean home range sizes (x = 2.98 and 9.25 ha) in the size of two wood lots (3.97 and 7.37 ha), respectively.  Among age groups, yearling fox squirrels had the largest mean home range (x = 15.20 ha) with a range of 0.42 to 119.4 ha when compared to juveniles and adults.  The home ranges of three fox squirrels included from 9-40 ha (22 -100 acres) of unprotected habitat such as pastures and cultivated fields.

3. Adams, Clark E. Population dynamics of fox squirrels, sciurus niger, in selexcted areas in Seward County, Nebraska.  Dissertation presented to the faculty of The Graduate College in the Universtiy of Nebraska Under supervision of Professor Harvey Gunderson: University of Nebraska; 1973.

Areas dealing with fox squirrels that need to be investigated further include density, home range, territoriality, and dispersal phenomena.  Use different models, i.e. Boguslavsky model.  using three different study areas and a variety of trapping methods.

4.   Adams, L. D. Davis.  The internal anatomy of home range Journal of Mammalogy. 1967; 48(4):529-536.

Direct observation and radio tracking provide a great many more observations of animal location than does live trapping.  This greater wealth of data allows quantitative descriptions of the distribution of use-intensity within the home range, in addition to the usual outline of the home range.  This entails the use of biometrical methods adapted to the management of the more massive data.  Variation in use-intensity over the home range can be represented graphically as a 3-dimensional frequency surface.  The " Index of Overlap" described here, provides a succint measure of the coincidence of use-intensity over the home ranges of two individuals.

5. Allen, Durward.  Population and habits of fox squirrel in Allega County Michigan.  1942; 27(2):338-379.

6. Allen, Durward L. Fox Squirrel's Green Pastures (Chapter 10).  Michigan Fox Squirrel Management (Book).  1943; 221-231.

Bendel, P. R. and G. D. Therres. 1994. Movements, site fidelity and survival of delmarva fox squirrels following translocation. American Midland Naturalist 132(2):227-233.

Coyner, D. F., J. B. Wooding and D. J. Forrester. 1996. A comparison of parasitic helminths and arthropods from two subspecies of fox squirrels (Sciurus Niger) in Florida. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 32(3):492-497.

Cox, George W. 1996. A laboratory manual of general ecology. 7^th ed. William C. Brown, Pub. Dubuque, IA.

Edwards, J. W., D. G. Heckel and D. C. Guynn, Jr. 1998. Niche overlap in sympatric populations of fox and gray squirrels. Journal of Wildlife Management 62(1):354-363.

Edwards, J. W. and D. C. Guynn, Jr. 1995. Nest characteristics of sympatric populations of fox and gray squirrels. Journal of Wildlife Management 59(1):103-110.

Jodice, P.G.R. 1990. Ecology and translocation of urban populations of Big Cypress fox squirrels (Sciurus niger avicennia). MS Thesis, Univ. Florida, Gainesville. 89pp.

Jodice, P. G. R. 1993. Movement patterns of translocated big cypress fox squirrels (Sciurus niger avicennia). Florida Scientist 56(1):1-5.

Koprowski, J. L. 1996. Natal philopatry, communal nesting, and kinship in fox squirrels and gray squirrels. Journal of Mammalogy 77(4):1006-1016.

Kantola, A. T. 1986. Fox squirrel home range and mast crops in Florida. MS Thesis, Univ. Florida, Gainesville. 68pp.

Kantola, Angela Torres and Stephen R. Humphrey. 1990. Habitat use by sherman’s fox squirrel (Sciurus niger shermani) in Florida. Journal of Mammalogy 71(3):411-419.

Mannelli, A., U. Kitron, C. J. Jones and T. L. Slajchert. 1993. Ixodes dammini (Acari:Ixodidae) infestation on medium-sized mammals and blue jays in northwestern Illinois. Journal of Medical Entomology 30(5):950-952.

Moore, J. C. 1957. The natural history of the fox squirrel. Sciurus niger shermani. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 113:1-71.

Sheperd, B. F. and R. K. Swihart. 1995. Spatial Dynamics of Fox Squirrels (Sciurus niger) in Fragmented Landscapes. Canadian Journal of Zoology 73(11):2098-2105.

Weigl, Peter D., Michael A. Steele, Lori J. Sherman, James C. Ha and Terry L. Sharpe. 1989. The Ecology of the Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger) in North Carolina: Implications for its survival in the Southeast.

Whitaker, John O. 1989. The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mammals. Alfred A. Knopf, New York.