Accounting for individuals, uncertainty, and multiscale clustering in core area estimation

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1343-1352

  Wilson, Ryan R ^a   Hooten, Mevin B ^a   Strobel, Bradley N ^b   Shivik, John A ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; bobcat; boundary estimation; clustering; core area; coyote; home range; point pattern analysis; red shouldered hawk; space use patterns

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CANID; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FELID; HOME RANGE; RAPTOR; SPACE USE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; BUTEO LINEATUS; CANIS LATRANS; LYNX; LYNX RUFUS;

EID: 77955084601     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2009-438     Document Type: Article

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