Landscape proportions versus Monte Carlo simulated home ranges for estimating habitat availability

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 20-32

  Katnik, Donald D ^a,b   Wielgus, Robert B ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ME Dept of Inland Fish and Wildl   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic Information System; GIS; Habitat analysis; Landscape; Resource selection; Spatial configuration; Spatial scale; Use vs. availability

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; GIS; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT SELECTION; HOME RANGE; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS; PANTHERA LEO; PUMA CONCOLOR;

EID: 18044390679     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2005)069<0020:LPVMCS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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