Remember the third dimension: Terrain modeling improves estimates of snake home range size

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 4, 2008, Pages 801-806

  Greenberg, David B ^a   McClintock, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; HOME RANGE; MOVEMENT; RANGE SIZE; SNAKE; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

CROTALUS; CROTALUS MITCHELLII; CROTALUS RUBER; SERPENTES;

EID: 58149386089     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/CE-07-119     Document Type: Article

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