Analysing small-scale aggregation in animal visits in space and time: The ST-BBD method

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 483-492

  Bonnell, Tyler R ^a   Dutilleul, Pierre ^a   Chapman, Colin A ^b,c   Reyna Hurtado, Rafael ^d   Hernández Sarabia, Raul Uriel ^e   Sengupta, Raja ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^d EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Animal movement; Beta binomial distribution; Folivore; Frugivore; Habitat use; Monkey; Small scale aggregation; Spatiotemporal point pattern analysis

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; DATA SET; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FRUGIVORY; GPS; GROUP SIZE; HABITAT USE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MOVEMENT; PRIMATE; SEED DISPERSAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ALOUATTA; ALOUATTA PIGRA; ANIMALIA; ATELES GEOFFROYI; ATELES SP.; COLOBINAE; HAPLORHINI; PRIMATES; PROCOLOBUS BADIUS; PROCOLOBUS RUFOMITRATUS;

EID: 84873093475     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.12.014     Document Type: Article

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