A parsimonious approach to modeling animal movement data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Tremblay, Yann ^a,b   Robinson, Patrick W ^b   Costa, Daniel P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TRACKING; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING RANDOM WALK; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PROBABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TELEMETRY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHOCA; TECHNIQUE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALIA; MIROUNGA; PINNIPEDIA;

ANIMALS; METHODS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; SEALS, EARLESS;

EID: 61849128840     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004711     Document Type: Article

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