How many seabirds do we need to track to define home-range area?

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 671-679

  Soanes, Louise M ^a   Arnould, John P Y ^b   Dodd, Stephen G ^c   Sumner, Michael D ^d   Green, Jonathan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Central place foragers; Global positioning system; Home range area; Marine protected area

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GPS; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HOME RANGE; MARINE MAMMAL; PROTECTED AREA; SAMPLING; SEABIRD; TRACKING;

AVES; LARUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84878197542     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12069     Document Type: Article

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