Suitability of distance metrics as indexes of home-range size in tropical rodent species

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 115-123

  Püttker, Thomas ^a,b   Dos Santos De Barros, Camila ^a   Martins, Thais Kubik ^a   Sommer, Simone ^b   Pardini, Renata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Akodon montensis; Atlantic forest; Brazil; Delomys sublineatus; minimum convex polygon

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CAPTURE METHOD; DATA SET; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; PRECISION; RANGE SIZE; RODENT; TRAPPING; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

AKODON MONTENSIS; DELOMYS SUBLINEATUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84857305717     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/10-MAMM-A-364.1     Document Type: Article

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