adehabitat: kernel HR size compared to MCP

Fri, Dec 5, 2008 8:08 AM

Hello SIG-Ecology

Could anyone shed any information on why the area of home ranges as
estimated in adehabitat can be several times higher when the kernelUD \
kernel.area functions are used compared to estimates from the mcp
function.  I would have expected them to be roughly the same, rather
than up to an order of magnitude different.  The feature is obvious even
in the example puechabon dataset that comes with the adehabitat package.

Using R version 2.8.0, adehabitat 1.7.1 on Ubuntu linux 8.04

Many thanks
Roy

Roy Sanderson,
Institute for Research on Environment and Sustainability (IRES),
Devonshire Building,
Newcastle University,
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
r.a.sanderson at newcastle.ac.uk
0191 246 4835