Incorporating the perceptual range of animals into connectivity models

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 213, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-85

  Pe'er, Guy ^a   Kramer Schadt, Stephanie ^a,b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Directing stimuli; Dispersal; Eurasian lynx; Heuristic model; Individual based spatially explicit model; Movement decisions; Perceptual range; Spatial gradients; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

MOVEMENT DECISIONS; PERCEPTUAL RANGE; SPATIAL GRADIENTS;

ANIMALS;

AVOIDANCE REACTION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CONNECTIVITY; DECISION MAKING; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FELID; HETEROGENEITY; IMMIGRATION; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MOVEMENT; PERCEPTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; LYNX; LYNX LYNX;

EID: 40649122467     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.11.020     Document Type: Article

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