Estimation of the maximum utilization area including home range and peripheral sites.

ABSTRACT: There is increasing evidence that occasional utilization area (peripheral sites), in addition to typical utilization area (home range), is important for wildlife conservation and management. Here we estimated the maximum utilization area (MUA), including both typical and occasional utilization areas, based on asymptotic curves of utilization area plotted against sample size. In previous studies, these curves have conventionally been plots of cumulative utilization area versus sample size, but this cumulative method is sensitive to stochastic effects. We propose a new method based on simulation studies where outcomes of replicated simulations are averaged to reduce stochastic effects. In this averaged method, possible combinations of sample size with the same number of location data replica

SUBMITTER: Terayama K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9077728 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature