Inferring activity budgets in wild animals to estimate the consequences of disturbances

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1415-1425

  Christiansen, Fredrik ^a   Rasmussen, Marianne H ^b   Lusseau, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Animal movement; Markov chains; Minke whale; Mixture model; Monte carlo; Tourism impact

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOENERGETICS; CONSERVATION STATUS; DISTURBANCE; HETEROGENEITY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; VESSEL; WHALE; WILD POPULATION;

EID: 84885125125     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/art086     Document Type: Article

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