Hints to Scientific Writing:
    Keep Biology The Subject of Your Work(and Avoiding
        Wordiness too!)

   One of the most frustrating experiences is reading a biology paper that you think sounds perfect from the title and abstact, however, when you get to the results section you are unable to discern any meaning because it reads like a statistics manual.  The subject of a sentence should be the biology not the statistics whenever possible.  Using a statistical test as the subject of a sentence is not informative, you have already mentioned the tests that you will use in the methods section.  As a result, you can shorten this sentence considerably simply by removing the statistical jargon as the subject of the sentence and beginning with the statement...

                "Home ranges did not differ....."

Back to the Manuscript