Movement ecology of human resource users: Using net squared displacement, biased random bridges and resource utilization functions to quantify hunter and gatherer behaviour

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 584-594

  Papworth, Sarah K ^a   Bunnefeld, Nils ^a   Slocombe, Katie ^b   Milner Gulland, E J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Habitats conservation; Spatial or time series statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867362073     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00189.x     Document Type: Article

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