Applications of step-selection functions in ecology and conservation

Movement Ecology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Thurfjell, Henrik ^a   Ciuti, Simone ^a,b   Boyce, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Broken stick model; Geographic Information System GIS; GPS telemetry; Habitat selection; Individual modelling; Remote sensing; Resource Selection Function RSF; Resource Selection Probability Function RSPF; State space model; Step Selection Function SSF

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901445809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20513933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2051-3933-2-4     Document Type: Review

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