A synoptic model of animal space use: Simultaneous estimation of home range, habitat selection, and inter/intra-specific relationships

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 214, Issue 2-4, 2008, Pages 338-348

  Horne, Jon S ^a   Garton, Edward O ^a,b   Rachlow, Janet L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b Center for Research on Invasive Species and Small Populations   (United States)

Author keywords

Akaike's information criteria; Competition; Resource selection; Telemetry; Utilization distribution

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ECOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TELEMETERING;

AKAIKE'S INFORMATION CRITERIA; RESOURCE SELECTION; SYNOPTIC MODEL; UTILIZATION DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS;

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); HABITAT SELECTION; HOME RANGE; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; RESOURCE SELECTION; SPACE USE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TELEMETRY; UNGULATE;

AFRICA; BULAWAYO [ZIMBABWE]; MATOBO NATIONAL PARK; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; ZIMBABWE;

ANIMALIA; CERATOTHERIUM SIMUM;

EID: 43049162433     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.02.042     Document Type: Article

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