Estimated home ranges can misrepresent habitat relationships on patchy landscapes

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 216, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 409-414

  Mitchell, Michael S ^a   Powell, Roger A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Habitat quality; Home range estimate; Optimal home range; Patchy landscape; Resource distribution

Indexed keywords

BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); ESTIMATION; LEAD; LOCATION; OCEAN HABITATS;

DISTRIBUTED RESOURCE (DR); HOME RANGE; LOCATION DATA; OPTIMAL SELECTION; RESOURCE DISTRIBUTIONS; SPATIAL CONTINUITY;

ECOLOGY;

ANIMAL; ESTIMATION METHOD; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; HOME RANGE; LANDSCAPE; PATCH DYNAMICS; PATCHINESS; RESOURCE USE; SPACE USE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 47249146393     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.05.001     Document Type: Article

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