LoCoH: Nonparameteric Kernel methods for constructing home ranges and utilization distributions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Getz, Wayne M ^a,b   Fortmann Roe, Scott ^a   Cross, Paul C ^c   Lyons, Andrew J ^a   Ryan, Sadie J ^a,e   Wilmers, Christopher C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BUFFALO; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HOME RANGE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERNEL METHOD; NONHUMAN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; SOUTH AFRICA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; STATISTICS;

ANIMALIA; SYNCERUS CAFFER;

ANIMALS; BUFFALOES; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOMING BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 34548552085     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000207     Document Type: Article

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