Measurement error causes scale-dependent threshold erosion of biological signals in animal movement data

Ecological Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 628-638

  Bradshaw, Corey J A ^a,b   Sims, David W ^c   Hays, Graeme C ^b  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Argos satellites; Fastloc; First passage time; Foraging; Fractal dimension; Geolocation; GPS; L vy flight; Radiotelemetry; Random walk; Spatial scale; VHF

Indexed keywords

DETECTION METHOD; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GPS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MOVEMENT; RADIOTELEMETRY; SIGNALING; THRESHOLD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TELEMETRY; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 34247210804     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-0964     Document Type: Article

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