Comparison of two sampling protocols and four home-range estimators using radio-tracking data from urban badgers Meles meles

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 467-477

  Huck, Maren ^a,b   Davison, John ^a,c   Roper, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b MAMMAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Brownian bridge; Eurasian badger; Fixed kernel; Local convex hull; MCP; Meles meles; Radio telemetry

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MELES MELES; TAXIDIINAE;

EID: 59449093168     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/0909-6396-14.4.467     Document Type: Article

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