Temporal autocorrelation functions for movement rates from global positioning system radiotelemetry data

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1550, 2010, Pages 2213-2219

  Boyce, Mark S ^a   Pitt, Justin ^a   Northrup, Joseph M ^a   Morehouse, Andrea T ^a   Knopff, Kyle H ^a   Cristescu, Bogdan ^a   Stenhouse, Gordon B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Foothills Research Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alberta; Autocorrelation; GPS radiotelemetry; Movement; Periodicity; Step length

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AUTOCORRELATION; BEAR; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIOTELEMETRY; CANID; DATA INTERPRETATION; DEER; FELID; GPS; MOVEMENT; PATCHINESS; PERIODICITY; RADIOTELEMETRY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WALKING; WILDERNESS AREA;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS; CERVUS ELAPHUS; PUMA CONCOLOR; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 77955179136     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0080     Document Type: Review

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