Context‐dependent perceptual ranges and their relevance to animal movements in landscapes
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Context-dependent perceptual ranges and their relevance to animal movements in landscapes
1. An animal’s perceptual range defines the spatial extent of the landscape for which information is available to make movement decisions. Ecologists studying and modelling animal dispersal have commonly assumed that individual movements arise from a predefined set of local decision rules operating within a static isotropic (i.e. circular) perceptual range. 2. We discuss how this assumption fai...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Animal Ecology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0021-8790,1365-2656
DOI: 10.1111/j.0021-8790.2004.00889.x