Practice question

Home range defines area an animal uses for foraging, mating, and shelter. Radio telemetry provides sequential location points. Minimum Convex Polygon method connects outermost points forming smallest convex polygon containing all locations, simple and comparable across studies despite sensitivity to outliers. Density estimation calculates individuals per area, transect mapping records along lines, and mark-recapture estimates population size not space use. Minimum Convex Polygon remains classic home range analysis in wildlife ecology, often supplemented by kernel density estimators providing probabilistic utilization distributions reflecting core areas more realistically.