Flexible and practical modeling of animal telemetry data: Hidden Markov models and extensions

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2336-2342

  Langrock, Roland ^a   King, Ruth ^a   Matthiopoulos, Jason ^a   Thomas, Len ^a   Fortin, Daniel ^b   Morales, Juan M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Behavioral state; Bison bison; Maximum likelihood; Random effects; Random walk; Semi Markov model; State space model; Telemetry data

Indexed keywords

BIOTELEMETRY; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; MARKOV CHAIN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MOVEMENT; RANDOM WALK METHOD; SATELLITE DATA; UNGULATE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BUFFALO; CANADA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALS; BISON; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SASKATCHEWAN; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALIA; BISON; BISON BISON;

EID: 84869159376     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-2241.1     Document Type: Article

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