It, therefore, provides a measure of every area where an individual has been recorded, but it provides no information about whether some areas are used more frequently than others. An MCP is the smallest polygon that can be drawn that will encompass all the locations where an individual is recorded that contains no internal angles greater than 180 degrees. These are through a minimum convex polygon (MCP) or through a kernel density estimate (KDE). There are two widely accepted ways to estimate an animal’s home range.
It is often useful to be able to identify and compare the areas used by individual animals in a population. On Thursday, Septem4:12:48 AM UTC-7, GIS in Ecology wrote:Įstimating Home Ranges Of Individual Animals In ArcGIS