Balancing number of locations with number of individuals in telemetry studies

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1249-1256

  Girard, Iréne ^a,c   Dussault, Christian ^a,b   Ouellet, Jean Pierre ^a   Courtois, Réhaume ^b   Caron, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b MINISTÈRE DES RESSOURCES NATURELLES ET DE LA FAUNE   (Canada)

^c Parc National de la Vanoise   (France)

Author keywords

Global Positioning System telemetry; Habitat selection; Inter individual variability; Sample size; Tracking frequency; Very high frequency telemetry

Indexed keywords

BIOTELEMETRY; DATA SET; GPS; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; MAMMAL; TRACKING;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; UNGULATA;

EID: 33845466127     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2006)70[1249:BNOLWN]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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