Remotely sensed productivity, regional home range selection, and local range use by an omnivorous primate

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 985-992

  Willems, Erik P ^a,b   Barton, Robert A ^a   Hill, Russell A ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Geographic information system; Multipredator environment; Normalized difference vegetation index; Remote sensing; Space use; Vertical substrate use

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GIS; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT USE; HOME RANGE; NDVI; OMNIVORY; PRIMATE; REMOTE SENSING;

ANIMALIA; CERCOPITHECUS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; PRIMATES;

EID: 70349462927     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp087     Document Type: Article

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