Stochastic modelling of animal movement

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1550, 2010, Pages 2201-2211

  Smouse, Peter E ^a   Focardi, Stefano ^b   Moorcroft, Paul R ^c   Kie, John G ^d   Forester, James D ^c   Morales, Juan M ^e  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND RESEARCH ISPRA   (Italy)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

^e LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Eulerian models; Home range; Lagrangian models; Levy; Memory; Stochastic movement modelling

Indexed keywords

BIOTELEMETRY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; FAUNISTICS; GPS; HOME RANGE; MEMORY; MOVEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; STOCHASTICITY; WALKING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77955196310     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0078     Document Type: Review

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