Inferring behavioural mechanisms in habitat selection studies getting the null-hypothesis right for functional and familiarity responses

Ecography

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 323-330

  Van Moorter, Bram ^a   Visscher, Darcy ^b   Herfindal, Ivar ^c   Basille, Mathieu ^d   Mysterud, Atle ^e  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b THE KING'S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; HABITAT USE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; RANDOM WALK METHOD;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84875367014     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07291.x     Document Type: Article

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