Fractals and search paths in mammals

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 213-221

  Bascompte, Jordi ^a,c   Vilà, Carles ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractal dimension; Patterns of movement; Tracking; Wolves

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000663664     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007990703139     Document Type: Article

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