Modelling group dynamic animal movement

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 190-199

  Langrock, Roland ^a   Hopcraft, J Grant C ^a,b   Blackwell, Paul G ^c   Goodall, Victoria ^d,e   King, Ruth ^a   Niu, Mu ^c   Patterson, Toby A ^f   Pedersen, Martin W ^g   Skarin, Anna ^h   Schick, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d SOUTH AFRICAN ENVIRONMENTAL OBSERVATION NETWORK   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^f CSIRO   (Australia)

^g TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^h SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Behavioural state; Hidden Markov model; Maximum likelihood; Random walk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893961321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12155     Document Type: Article

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