Are there general mechanisms of animal home range behaviour? A review and prospects for future research

Ecology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 637-650

  Börger, Luca ^a   Dalziel, Benjamin D ^a   Fryxell, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Home range; Random walk; Site fidelity; Spatial ecology

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOME RANGE; SITE FIDELITY; SPACE USE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; APPETITE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TERRITORIALITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MEMORY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 43249120123     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01182.x     Document Type: Review

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