KERNELHR: A program for estimating animal home ranges

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 95-100

  Seaman, D Erran ^a,c,d,e   Griffith, Brad ^b,d,f,g,h,i   Powell, Roger A ^c  

^a Forest Rangeland Ecosystem Sci Ctr   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e Department of Obstetrics Gynecology

^f UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^g OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

ⁱ US Fish and Wildlfe Service

Author keywords

Core area; Home range; Kernel method; Nonparametric density estimation; Utilization distribution

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM; ESTIMATION METHOD; HOME RANGE;

EID: 3543002195     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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