An animal movement model incorporating home range and habitat selection

Authors

• Aaron Christ, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
• Jay Ver Hoef, National Marine Mammal Laboratory
• Dale L. Zimmerman, University of Iowa

Date of this Version

2008

Comments

Published in Environ Ecol Stat (2008) 15:27–38.

Abstract

Wildlife biologists are often interested in how an animal uses space and the habitat resources within that space. We propose a single model that estimates an animal’s home range and habitat selection parameters within that range while accounting for the inherent autocorrelation in frequently sampled telemetry data. The model is applied to brown bear telemetry data in southeast Alaska.