Caribou movement as a correlated random walk

Oecologia

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 364-374

  Bergman, Carita M ^a,b   Schaefer, James A ^a,c   Luttich, S N ^a,d  

^a Wildlife Division   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Caribou; Correlated random walk; Movement; Rangifer tarandus; Ungulate

Indexed keywords

MAMMAL; MIGRATION; MOVEMENT;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; RANGIFER TARANDUS; UNGULATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034042035     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420051023     Document Type: Article

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