The home-range concept: Are traditional estimators still relevant with modern telemetry technology?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1550, 2010, Pages 2221-2231

  Kie, John G ^a   Matthiopoulos, Jason ^b   Fieberg, John ^c   Powell, Roger A ^d   Cagnacci, Francesca ^e   Mitchell, Michael S ^f   Gaillard, Jean Michel ^g   Moorcroft, Paul R ^h  

^a Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^g LABORATOIRE DE BIOMÉTRIE ET BIOLOGIE EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^h HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GPS; Home ranges; Mechanistic models; Space use; Telemetry; Utilization distributions

Indexed keywords

BIOTELEMETRY; DATA SET; GPS; HOME RANGE; KRIGING; MOVEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPACE USE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRACKING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77955218944     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0093     Document Type: Article

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