Incorporating movement behavior and barriers to improve kernel home range space use estimates

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1353-1360

  Benhamou, Simon ^a   Cornélis, Daniel ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

activity; home range; kernel density estimation; movement behavior; utilization distribution

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; HOME RANGE; MOVEMENT; RESOURCE SELECTION; SPACE USE; VERTEBRATE;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77955084983     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2009-441     Document Type: Article

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