Extending the functionality of behavioural change-point analysis with k-means clustering: A case study with the little penguin (Eudyptula minor)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Jingjing ^a   O'Reilly, Kathleen M ^b   Perry, George L W ^a,c   Taylor, Graeme A ^d   Dennis, Todd E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE POINT ANALYSIS; BODY MOVEMENT; CASE STUDY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EUDYPTULA MINOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PENGUIN; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; REST; SIMULATION; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; SWIMMING; TELEMETRY; VELOCITY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; EUDYPTULA MINOR; SPHENISCIDAE;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MOVEMENT; SPHENISCIDAE; TELEMETRY;

EID: 84928753019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122811     Document Type: Article

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