Quantitative method to estimate species habitat use from light-based geolocation data

Endangered Species Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 341-353

  Thiebot, Jean Baptiste ^a   Pinaud, David ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Habitat use; Kalman filter; Large scale movements; Light based geolocation; Method; Sea surface temperature; State space model

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ORGANISM; DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION METHOD; HABITAT USE; KALMAN FILTER; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARKOV CHAIN; METHODOLOGY; MODELING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77952297689     PISSN: 18635407     EISSN: 16134796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/esr00261     Document Type: Article

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