The trade-off between fix rate and tracking duration on estimates of home range size and habitat selection for small vertebrates.

ABSTRACT: Despite advances in technology, there are still constraints on the use of some tracking devices for small species when gathering high temporal and spatial resolution data on movement and resource use. For small species, weight limits imposed on GPS loggers and the consequent impacts on battery life, restrict the volume of data that can be collected. Research on home range and habitat selection for these species should therefore incorporate a consideration of how different sampling parameters and methods may affect the structure of the data and the conclusions drawn. However, factors such as these are seldom explicitly considered. We applied two commonly-used methods of home range estimation, Movement-based Kernel Density Estimation (MKDE) and Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) to investigate

SUBMITTER: Mitchell LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6619758 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature