Adaptive models for large herbivore movements in heterogeneous landscapes

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 301-316

  Morales, Juan Manuel ^a   Fortin, Daniel ^b   Frair, Jacqueline L ^c   Merrill, Evelyn H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cervus elaphus; Foraging; Neural networks; Spatial; Ungulate

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; FITNESS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HERBIVORE; MODELING; MOVEMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNGULATE;

ANIMALIA; BOVIDAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 21244505014     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-005-0061-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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