A framework for generating and analyzing movement paths on ecological landscapes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 49, 2008, Pages 19066-19071

  Getz, Wayne M ^a,b   Saltz, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Fission fusion; GPS; Landscape matrices; Movement ecology; Random and l vy walks

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; DIFFUSION; ECOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT;

EID: 58049194280     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0801732105     Document Type: Review

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