Characterization of home using point peeling algorithms

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 422-434

  Bath, Sue K ^a   Hayter, Anthony J ^a   Cairns, David A ^b,c   Anderson, Carl ^a,d  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d Qbit LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotelemetry; Convex hulls; Home range analysis; Point peeling

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL COMMUNITY; DATA ACQUISITION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33646697566     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2006)70[422:COHRUP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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