Kernels are not accurate estimators of home-range size for herpetofauna

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 4, 2006, Pages 797-802

  Row, Jeffrey R ^a   Blouin Demers, Gabriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; HABITAT USE; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; RANGE SIZE; SIMULATION; SMOOTHING; SNAKE;

LAMPROPELTIS TRIANGULUM;

EID: 33845917467     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2006)6[797:KANAEO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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