Accounting for animal movement in estimation of resource selection functions: Sampling and data analysis

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3554-3565

  Forester, James D ^a,b   Im, Hae Kyung ^a   Rathouz, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal movement; Case control; Conditional logistic regression; Elk; Relocation kernel; Resource selection function; Telemetry; Yellowstone

Indexed keywords

BIOTELEMETRY; DATA PROCESSING; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; HABITAT USE; MOVEMENT; NATIONAL PARK; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELOCATION; RESOURCE USE; SAMPLING; STOCHASTICITY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEER; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEER; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOVEMENT; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

UNITED STATES; YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 72449130001     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-0874.1     Document Type: Article

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