Predicting local and non-local effects of resources on animal space use using a mechanistic step selection model

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 253-262

  Potts, Jonathan R ^a   Bastille Rousseau, Guillaume ^b   Murray, Dennis L ^b   Schaefer, James A ^b   Lewis, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal movement; Caribou (Rangifer tarandus); Master equation; Mechanistic models; Resource selection analysis; Step selection functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897779435     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12150     Document Type: Article

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