Spatial and temporal scaling of population density and animal movement: A power law approach

Ecoscience

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 496-501

  Schaefer, James A ^a   Mahoney, Shane P ^b  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Department of Environment and Conservation   (Canada)

Author keywords

Density; Movements; Rangifer tarandus; Spatial scale; Temporal scale

Indexed keywords

POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; POWER LAW; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; CANIS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 0346277140     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2003.11682797     Document Type: Article

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