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| Other authors / contributors: | Lewis, M. (Mark), 1962- author.
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| ISBN: | 9781400849734
140084973X
9780691009279
9780691009285
0691009279
9780691009278
0691009287
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Spatial patterns of movement are fundamental to the ecology of animal populations, influencing their social organization, mating systems, demography, and the spatial distribution of prey and competitors. However, our ability to understand the causes and consequences of animal home range patterns has been limited by the descriptive nature of the statistical models used to analyze them. In Mechanistic Home Range Analysis, Paul Moorcroft and Mark Lewis develop a radically new framework for studying animal home range patterns based on the analysis of correlated random work models for individual movement behavior. They use this framework to develop a series of mechanistic home range models for carnivore populations. The authors' analysis illustrates how, in contrast to traditional statistical home range models that merely describe pattern, mechanistic home range models can be used to discover the underlying ecological determinants of home range patterns observed in populations, make accurate predictions about how spatial distributions of home ranges will change following environmental or demographic disturbance, and analyze the functional significance of the movement strategies of individuals that give rise to observed patterns of space use. By providing researchers and graduate students of ecology and wildlife biology with a more illuminating way to analyze animal movement, Mechanistic Home Range Analysis will be an indispensable reference for years to come.
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| Other form: | Print version: Moorcroft, Paul, 1969- Mechanistic home range analysis. Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxfordshire, England : Princeton University Press, ©2006 xi, 172 pages Monographs in population biology. 9780691009285
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| Standard no.: | 9780691009279
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