State-space models link elk movement patterns to landscape characteristics in Yellowstone National Park

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 285-299

  Forester, James D ^a,e   Ives, Anthony R ^a   Turner, Monica G ^a   Anderson, Dean P ^a   Fortin, Daniel ^b   Beyer, Hawthorne L ^c   Smith, Douglas W ^d   Boyce, Mark S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d YELLOWSTONE CENTER FOR RESOURCES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal movement; Cervus elaphus; Elk; Heterogeneous landscapes; Kalman filter; Landscape ecology; Multiphasic movement path analyses; State space; Ungulate; Wapiti; Yellowstone National Park, USA

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DEER; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GPS; HABITAT SELECTION; MOVEMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS; CERVUS ELAPHUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 39749186382     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-0534     Document Type: Article

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