Space Use and Movement of a Neotropical Top Predator: The Endangered Jaguar.

ABSTRACT: Accurately estimating home range and understanding movement behavior can provide important information on ecological processes. Advances in data collection and analysis have improved our ability to estimate home range and movement parameters, both of which have the potential to impact species conservation. Fitting continuous-time movement model to data and incorporating the autocorrelated kernel density estimator (AKDE), we investigated range residency of forty-four jaguars fit with GPS collars across five biomes in Brazil and Argentina. We assessed home range and movement parameters of range resident animals and compared AKDE estimates with kernel density estimates (KDE). We accounted for differential space use and movement among individuals, sex, region, and habitat quality. Thirty-three

SUBMITTER: Morato RG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5193337 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature