Indices of movement behaviour: conceptual background, effects of scale and location errors

A fundamental step in the emerging Movement Theory is the description of movement paths, and the identification of its proximate and ultimate drivers. The most common characteristic used to describe and analyze movement paths is its tortuosity, and a variety of tortuosity indices have been proposed...

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Main Authors: Paulo J. A. L. Almeida, Marcus V. Vieira, Maja Kajin, German Forero-Medina, Rui Cerqueira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia 2010-10-01
Series:Zoologia (Curitiba)
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-46702010000500002