Can we accurately characterize wildlife resource use when telemetry data are imprecise?

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1917-1925

  Montgomery, Robert A ^a   Roloff, Gary J ^a   Ver Hoef, Jay M ^b   Millspaugh, Joshua J ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic Information Systems (GIS); habitat patches; positional error; resource use; telemetry

Indexed keywords

ELEVATION; GIS; HABITAT TYPE; NATURAL RESOURCE; PATCH SIZE; RASTER; REMOTE SENSING; RESOURCE USE; TELEMETRY; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 78149437158     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2010-019     Document Type: Article

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