Towards a general formalization of encounter rates in ecology

Theoretical Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 189-202

  Gurarie, Eliezer ^a,b   Ovaskainen, Otso ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Animal movement; Characteristic scales; Correlated velocity movement; Encounter kernel; Encounter rates; Mean field perturbation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; ANIMAL; ENCOUNTER RATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TAXONOMY; TORTUOSITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84870832011     PISSN: 18741738     EISSN: 18741746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12080-012-0170-4     Document Type: Article

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