Evaluating GPS collar error: A critical evaluation of televilt posrec-science™ collars and a method for screening location data

California Fish and Game

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 155-168

  Villepique, Jeffrey T ^a   Bleich, Vernon C ^a   Pierce, Becky M ^a   Stephenson, Thomas R ^a   Botta, Randalla ^a   Bowyer, R Terry ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^b Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS; OVIS ARIES; OVIS CANADENSIS;

EID: 77953198748     PISSN: 00081078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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