Recent advances in animal tracking and telemetry technology have allowed the collection of
location data at an ever-increasing rate and accuracy, and these advances have been …

This manual is intended to accompany the Home Range Tools (HRT) for the ArcGIS® 9. x
Geographic Information System (GIS). The manual has been written for novice GIS users …

Background An important issue in conducting kernel home-range analyses is the choice of
bandwidth or smoothing parameter. To examine the effects of this choice, telemetry data …

Statisticians frequently voice concern that their interactions with applied researchers start
only after data have been collected. The same can be said for our experience with home …

Animals that must hunt and kill for at least part of their living are inherently interesting to
many people and the role that carnivores play in biological communities attract interest from …

Understanding patterns in the spatial distribution of individuals in a population is a central
question in ecology. Concurrent with advances in biotelemetry devices, development of …

Core areas are often employed in space-use studies to emphasize sections of a home range
where an animal supposedly concentrates its time spent (ie, areas of intense use). The area …

Predator space use influences ecosystem dynamics, and a fundamental goal assumed for a
foraging predator is to maximize encounter rate with prey. This can be achieved by …

Migration functions as an adaptive strategy to improve fitness by allowing individuals to
exploit spatiotemporal gradients of resources. Yet migration, especially among large …

Implementation of effective conservation planning relies on a robust understanding of the
spatiotemporal distribution of the target species. In the marine realm, this is even more …