A local nearest-neighbor convex-hull construction of home ranges and utilization distributions

Ecography

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 489-505

  Getz, Wayne M ^a   Wilmers, Christopher C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOME RANGE; MODELING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 3042622967     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2004.03835.x     Document Type: Article

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