Weighed down by science: Do collar-mounted devices affect domestic cat behaviour and movement?

Wildlife Research

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 606-614

  Coughlin, Cayley E ^a   Van Heezik, Yolanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BODY MASS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FELID; GPS; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; MOVEMENT; RANGE SIZE; REPRODUCTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 84925325606     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR14160     Document Type: Article

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