Using satellite radiotelemetry data to delineate and manage wildlife populations

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 661-679

  Amstrup, Steven C ^a,c,d,e   McDonald, Trent L ^b,f,g,h   Durner, George M ^a,i,j  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b WESTERN ECOSYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^g NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Arctic; Beaufort Sea; Boundaries; Clustering; Fourier transform; Kernel; Management; Polar bears; Population delineation; Radiotelemetry; Satellite; Smoothing; Ursus maritimus

Indexed keywords

BIOTELEMETRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORM; POPULATION ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; URSUS; URSUS MARITIMUS;

EID: 7544248187     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0091-7648(2004)032[0661:USRDTD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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