Radio location error and the estimates of home-range size, movements, and habitat use: A simple field test

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 317-324

  Kauhala, Kaarina ^a   Tiilikainen, Thea ^b  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b NONE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HABITAT USE; HOME RANGE; MOVEMENT; RADIOTELEMETRY;

ANIMALIA; LEPUS;

EID: 0036915073     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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