Effects of point pattern shape on home-range estimates

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1813-1818

  Downs, Joni A ^a   Horner, Mark W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Home range; Kernel density estimation; Least squares cross validation; Minimum convex polygon; Plug in bandwidth selection; Point patterns

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ESTIMATION METHOD; HOME RANGE; SPACE USE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 56649095600     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2007-454     Document Type: Article

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