GeoLight - processing and analysing light-based geolocator data in R

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1055-1059

  Lisovski, Simeon ^a,b   Hahn, Steffen ^b  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Archival tag; Bird migration; Changepoint; Geolocation; Tracking

Indexed keywords

AVES; UPUPA EPOPS; UPUPIDAE;

EID: 84870978758     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00248.x     Document Type: Article

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