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Wildlife biologists are often interested in how an animal uses space and the habitat resources within that space. We propose a single model that estimates an animal’s home range and habitat selection parameters within that range while accounting for the inherent autocorrelation in frequently sampled telemetry data. The model is applied to brown bear telemetry data in southeast Alaska.
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This article is based on a portion of this author’s Ph.D. dissertation completed in 2003 at the University of Iowa.
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Christ, A., Hoef, J.V. & Zimmerman, D.L. An animal movement model incorporating home range and habitat selection. Environ Ecol Stat 15, 27–38 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10651-007-0036-x
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10651-007-0036-x