Effects of telemetry location error on space-use estimates using a fixed-kernel density estimator

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2421-2426

  Moser, Brian W ^a,b   Garton, Edward O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b Potlatch Forest Holdings Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross validation; Error ratio; Fixed kernel; Home range; Location error; Radiotelemetry; Space use; Utilization distribution

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; HOME RANGE; POPULATION ESTIMATION; RADIOTELEMETRY; RANGE SIZE; SPACE USE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 48249120722     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2007-003     Document Type: Article

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