Spatial capture-recapture models for jointly estimating population density and landscape connectivity

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 287-294

  Royle, J Andrew ^a   Chandler, Richard B ^a   Gazenski, Kimberly D ^a   Graves, Tabitha A ^b,c  

^a PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Warner College of Natural Resources ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Animal movement; Ecological distance; Landscape connectivity; Least cost path; Resistance surface; Spatial capture recapture

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; LANDSCAPE; MOVEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POPULATION DENSITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84876132814     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0413.1     Document Type: Article

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