Bandwidth selection for fixed-kernel analysis of animal utilization distributions

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1334-1344

  Gitzen, Robert A ^a,b   Millspaugh, Joshua J ^b   Kernohan, Brian J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c Forest Capital Partners LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Home range; Least squares cross validation; Plug in; Solve the equation; Space use; Utilization distribution

Indexed keywords

HABITAT USE; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD; RADIOTELEMETRY; RANGE SIZE; SIMULATION; TRACKING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33845404393     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2006)70[1334:BSFFAO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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