Modeling utilization distributions in space and time

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1971-1980

  Keating, Kim A ^a   Cherry, Steve ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bighorn sheep; Glacier National Park; Home range; Kernel density estimation; Metropolis Hastings algorithm; Montana; Nonparametric; Ovis canadensis; Product kernel estimator; USA

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HOME RANGE; MIGRATORY SPECIES; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; SHEEP; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SHEEP; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SHEEP, BIGHORN; TIME FACTORS;

GLACIER NATIONAL PARK [MONTANA]; MONTANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES; OVIS CANADENSIS;

EID: 67650654621     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1131.1     Document Type: Article

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