LoCoH: Nonparameteric Kernel Methods for Constructing Home Ranges and Utilization Distributions
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LoCoH: Nonparameteric Kernel Methods for Constructing Home Ranges and Utilization Distributions
Parametric kernel methods currently dominate the literature regarding the construction of animal home ranges (HRs) and utilization distributions (UDs). These methods frequently fail to capture the kinds of hard boundaries common to many natural systems. Recently a local convex hull (LoCoH) nonparametric kernel method, which generalizes the minimum convex polygon (MCP) method, was shown to be mo...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000207