A dynamic Brownian bridge movement model to estimate utilization distributions for heterogeneous animal movement

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 738-746

  Kranstauber, Bart ^a   Kays, Roland ^b,c   Lapoint, Scott D ^b   Wikelski, Martin ^a   Safi, Kamran ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioural change; Encounter probability; GPS; Home range; Utilization distribution

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; BIRD; GPS; HETEROGENEITY; HOME RANGE; MAMMAL; MOVEMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VOLUME;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHARADRIIFORMES; ECOLOGY; ETHOLOGY; EVALUATION; FINLAND; METHODOLOGY; MUSTELIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICA, EASTERN; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CHARADRIIFORMES; ECOLOGY; ETHOLOGY; FINLAND; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSTELIDAE; NEW YORK; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84862661545     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2012.01955.x     Document Type: Article

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