Radio-tracking squirrels: Performance of home range density and linkage estimators with small range and sample size

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 202, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 333-344

  Wauters, Luc A ^a   Preatoni, Damiano G ^a   Molinari, Ambrogio ^a   Tosi, Guido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adjusted smoothing factor; Eurasian red squirrel; Home range estimator reliability; Incremental cluster analysis; Kernel density estimators; Minimum convex polygons

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STABILITY; TRACKING (POSITION);

ADJUSTED SMOOTHING FACTOR; EURASIAN RED SQUIRREL; HOME RANGE ESTIMATOR RELIABILITY; INCREMENTAL CLUSTER-ANALYSIS; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATORS; MINIMUM CONVEX POLYGONS;

LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES;

ESTIMATION METHOD; HABITAT USE; HOME RANGE; RODENT; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; TRACKING;

MAMMALIA; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS VULGARIS; TAMIASCIURUS;

EID: 33847634334     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.11.001     Document Type: Article

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