Selecting the best home range model: An information-theoretic approach

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1146-1152

  Horne, Jon S ^a   Garton, Edward O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Akaike's information criterion; Exponential power function; Home range; Information theoretic approach; Kullback Leibler distance; Likelihood cross validation criterion; Model selection; Utilization distribution

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; HOME RANGE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOVEMENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOMING BEHAVIOR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33646741386     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[1146:STBHRM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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