Animal movements in heterogeneous landscapes: Identifying profitable places and homogeneous movement bouts

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3336-3348

  Barraquand, Frédéric ^a,b   Benhamou, Simon ^a  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b CENTRE D ETUDES BIOLOGIQUES DE CHIZÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Area concentrated search; Area restricted search; First passage time; Movement analysis; Residence time; Segmentation; Signal processing; State space models

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEITY; HOMOGENEITY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LANDSCAPE; MOVEMENT; PROFITABILITY; RESIDENCE TIME; SIGNALING;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENT; LOCOMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; LOCOMOTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 60249085852     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-0162.1     Document Type: Article

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