Note: Front Cover -- Radio Tracking and Animal Populations -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Historical and Practical Perspectives -- The First 20 Years -- The Third Decade -- The 1990s -- The Future -- Part II: Experimental Design -- Chapter 2. Experimental Design for Radiotelemetry Studies -- Critical Questions for Experimental Design -- Ultimate Design: Demographic Responses to Landscape Conditions and Resource Selection -- Summary -- Chapter 3. Effects of Tagging and Location Error in Wildlife Radiotelemetry Studies -- Effects of Transmitters on Animals -- Location Error -- Testing and Reporting Error Estimates -- Summary -- Part III: Equipment and Technology -- Chapter 4. Recent Telemetry Technology -- Power Supplies -- Microcontrollers -- Coded Transmitters -- Sensors -- Archival Tags -- Satellite Telemetry Systems -- Hyperbolic Telemetry Systems -- Implications for Data Analysis -- Implications for Researchers -- Future Directions -- Part IV: Animal Movements -- Chapter 5. Analysis of Animal Space Use and Movements -- Using Home Range Estimators to Analyze Animal Space Use -- Analysis of Site Fidelity -- Analysis of Animal Interactions -- The Future: Modeling the Movement Process -- Summary -- Chapter 6. Fractal-Based Spatial Analysis of Radiotelemetry Data -- Multiscale Analysis of Radiotelemetry Data -- Fractal Analysis of Spatial Pattern -- Modeling Fractal Patterns: Lévy Flights -- Example: Sage Grouse Location Data -- Future Directions -- Summary -- Chapter 7. Estimating and Visualizing Movement Paths from Radio-Tracking Data -- Sources of Variation -- Improving Accuracy and Precision -- Demonstration -- Visualizing Paths -- Future Directions -- Conclusions -- Part V: Resource Selection -- Chapter 8. Statistical Issues in Resource Selection Studies with Radio-Marked Animals. , Common Assumptions in Resource Selection with Radio-Marked Animals -- Inference from Resource Selection Studies -- Study Designs -- Scale and Resource Availability -- Resource Use -- Variable and Model Determination -- Independence Issues -- Analyzing Resource Use Relative to Availability -- Future Directions -- Summary -- Chapter 9. Accounting for Variation in Resource Availability and Animal Behavior in Resource Selection Studies -- Methods -- Case Study: Summer, Diurnal, and Microsite Resource Selection by Elk in South Dakota -- Results -- Discussion -- Summary -- Chapter 10. Using Euclidean Distances to Assess Nonrandom Habitat Use -- Desirable Characteristics of a Habitat Analysis Tool -- Habitat Analysis with Euclidean Distances -- Example of the Procedure Applied to Fox Squirrel Data -- Comparison with Other Techniques -- Benefits of the Euclidean Distance Approach -- Research Needs -- Future Directions -- Summary -- Chapter 11. Effect of Sample Size on the Performance of Resource Selection Analyses -- Study Area and Technologies -- Methods -- Results -- Discussion -- Summary -- Chapter 12. High-Tech Behavioral Ecology: Modeling the Distribution of Animal Activities to Better Understand Wildlife Space Use and Resource Selection -- Space Use -- Resource Selection -- Improving Our Approach to the Study of Wildlife Radiotelemetry -- Summary -- Part VI: Population Demographics -- Chapter 13. Population Estimation with Radio-Marked Animals -- Direct Mark-Resight Estimation -- Sightability Models -- Correcting Bias of Grid Trapping Estimates -- Future Developments -- Summary -- Chapter 14. Analysis of Survival Data from Radiotelemetry Studies -- Approaches for Estimating Survival -- Areas of Concern -- What Must We Do? -- Future Directions -- Summary -- Part VII: Concluding Remarks. , Chapter 15. Radio-Tracking and Animal Populations: Past Trends and Future Needs -- Past Trends -- Future Needs -- Appendix A. A Catalog of Software to Analyze Radiotelemetry Data -- Preliminary Analyses -- Animal Movements -- Resource Selection -- Demographics -- General Statistics -- Availability of Software -- Equipment Vendors and Distributors -- Literature Cited -- Subject Index.