Inferring Animal Densities from Tracking Data Using Markov Chains

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Whitehead, Hal ^a   Jonsen, Ian D ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TRACKING; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ECOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HABITAT; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; PROBABILITY; RELATIVE DENSITY; SIMULATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPERM WHALE; WATER AND WATER RELATED PHENOMENA; WATER DEPTH;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECUADOR; FEMALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SPERM WHALE;

ANIMALIA; PHYSETERIDAE;

EID: 84876448389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060901     Document Type: Article

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