Improving studies of resource selection by understanding resource use

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 18-27

  Kertson, Brian N ^a   Marzluff, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

cougar; multivariate resource utilization; resource selection; resource utilization function

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR; BANDWIDTH SELECTIONS; BIVARIATE; COUGAR; CROSS VALIDATION; GPS DATA; HOME RANGE; LEAST SQUARE; PLUG-INS; RESOURCE SELECTION; RESOURCE USE; RESOURCE UTILIZATIONS; SMOOTHING PARAMETER; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; STEEP SLOPE; STUDY AREAS; UNIVARIATE;

ANIMALS; BANDWIDTH; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; REFORESTATION;

NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; FELID; GPS; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HOME RANGE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; REGENERATION; RESOLUTION; RESOURCE SELECTION; RESOURCE USE; SLOPE; SOFTWARE;

ANIMALS; DATA PROCESSING; NATURAL RESOURCES; REFORESTATION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SELECTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; UTILIZATION;

ANIMALIA; PUMA CONCOLOR;

EID: 82555194433     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: 14694387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892910000706     Document Type: Article

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