Dear Maren:
I would love to receive a copy in pdf form of: Huck, M., Davison, J., Roper, T.J., 2008. Comparison of two sampling protocols and four home range estimators using radio-tracking data from urban badgers. Wildlife Biology 14, 467-477.
I was particularly interested in your comment:
LCH performed consistently better than FK, and is especially appropriate for patchy study areas containing frequent no-go zones. However, we recommend using LCH in combination with other methods to estimate total range size, because LCH tended to produce smaller estimates than any other method.
I don't fully understand the comment since LoCoH estimates of range size are an increasing function of the number of local points included in the kernel construction: that is, in a fixed k-LoCoH, fixed r-LoCoH or adaptive a-LoCoH approach, range size estimates increase within increasing values for the parameters k, r or a. Further, from your abstract is not clear the MCP is the same as fixed LoCoH when k is equal to the total number of points. Hence for k large enough, LoCoH will give the same range estimate as MCP. In fact, I could have called LoCoH, LCP instead of LCH but preferred "LoCoH" because of its phonemic relationship to the work "location".
All the best and thanks for your hard work on improving AniMov.
Wayne
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