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The document discusses software tools called the Home Range Extension (HRE) and Home Range Tools (HRT) that extend ArcGIS and ArcView capabilities to analyze animal home range and movement data. The tools allow import of location data, calculation of home range sizes and shapes using minimum convex polygons and kernel density estimation, and determination of habitat use.

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Home Range Extension Registration

The document discusses software tools called the Home Range Extension (HRE) and Home Range Tools (HRT) that extend ArcGIS and ArcView capabilities to analyze animal home range and movement data. The tools allow import of location data, calculation of home range sizes and shapes using minimum convex polygons and kernel density estimation, and determination of habitat use.

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HRE:TheHomeRangeExtensionfor
ArcView
ArthurR.RodgersandAngusP.Carr,OntarioMinistryofNaturalResources,Centre
forNorthernForestEcosystemResearch,ThunderBay,Ontario,Canada
Citeas:Rodgers,A.R.,andA.P.Carr.1998.HRE:TheHomeRangeExtensionforArcView.Ontario
MinistryofNaturalResources,CentreforNorthernForestEcosystemResearch,ThunderBay,Ontario,
Canada.

AND
HRT:HomeRangeToolsforArcGIS
ArthurR.Rodgers1,AngusP.Carr1,HawthorneL.Beyer2,LledSmith3,andJohnG.
Kie4,5
1OntarioMinistryofNaturalResources,CentreforNorthernForestEcosystem

Research,ThunderBay,Ontario,Canada2U.S.ForestService,PacificNorthwest
ResearchStation,Olympia,Washington,USA3HDRInc.,Salem,Oregon,USA4U.S.
ForestService,PacificNorthwestResearchStation,LaGrande,Oregon,USA
5DepartmentofBiologicalSciences,IdahoStateUniversity,Pocatello,Idaho,USA
Citeas:Rodgers,A.R.,A.P.Carr,H.L.Beyer,L.Smith,andJ.G.Kie.2007.HRT:HomeRangeTools
forArcGIS.Version1.1.OntarioMinistryofNaturalResources,CentreforNorthernForestEcosystem
Research,ThunderBay,Ontario,Canada.
TheHREandHRTcontainsoftwarethatextendsArcVieworArcGIStoanalyzehomerangesof
animals.Theabilitytouselargedatasetsandcarryoutallrequiredhomerangeanalyseswithinasingle
softwareenvironmentwereourprimaryreasonsfordevelopingtheHomeRangeExtension(HRE)for
http://flash.lakeheadu.ca/~arodgers/hre/

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theArcViewGISandtheHRTforArcGIS.TheprogramshavebeenwrittenfornoviceGISuserswho
alreadyunderstandbasicwildlifetelemetryissuesandwhoarefamiliarwiththeconceptofa"home
range".SincetheHREandHRTwereoriginallydevelopedforusewithLOTEKGPScollars,theyhavea
directimportfilterforLOTEKGPScollardatafiles.TheHREalsoprovidesdirectimportofdatafrom
ServiceArgosDCLSfiles,dBASEfiles,orASCIItextfiles.AnimportantfeatureoftheHREisthe
"MooseOnALeash"(MOAL)dataanimationtool,orDisplayTraveltoolintheHRT,thatfollowsan
animal'spathasitmovesfrompointtopoint.Pointdatacanbeusedtocalculateaveragedistancemoved
betweenfixes,averageelapsedtimebetweenfixes,speedofmovement,totaldistancemovedinagiven
period,orhomerangepolygons.TheHREandHRTinclude2homerangeanalysismodels:minimum
convexpolygons(MCPs)andkernelmethods.Becausedifferentcomputersoftwareprogramsmay
producelargedifferencesinhomerangeestimatesbasedonthesemodels,theHREandHRTinclude
mostoftheoptionsofferedinearlierprogramsforcalculationofestimatorsandvaluesinputforvarious
parameters.Thereareseveraldifferentwaystoautomaticallygenerate%MCPsintheHREandHRT.
TheHREandHRTincludebothfixedandadaptivekernelmethods.BothSchoener'sautocorrelation
indexandtheSwihartandSladeindexarecalculatedinconjunctionwithkernelanalyses.TheHRTfor
ArcGISprovidesrasteroutputandbatchprocessingofkernelanalysesformultipleanimals.
DeterminationofhabitattypesusedbyananimalisrelativelystraightforwardinaGISusingthe
geometricintersectionof"thehabitat"with"theareausedbytheanimal"asdescribedbyapolygon
resultingfromoneoftheMCPorkernelmethods.Theusershouldbeabletoperformalltheanalysesof
theirpointdatawithinArcViewandtheHRE,orArcGISandtheHRT.
DownloadtheHomeRangeTools(HRT)forArcGIS9.x
VERSION:1.1
COMPILED:September19,2007
WEBSITEUPDATED:August10,2011
NOTES:
IsoplethsresultingfromkernelanalysesinthisversionoftheHRTareslightlydifferent(~1%)thanthose
producedbyearlierversionsoftheHREandHRT.Whereasearlierversionsincludedcodetogenerate
isopleths,thisversionoftheHRTusestheArcGIScontouringroutinetoproducetheisopleths.
ToinstalltheHRT,extractthezipfiletothedirectoryofyourchoicethendoubleclickthesetup.exefile.
StartArcMapthenselectCustomizeontheToolsmenuandchecktheboxnexttoHomeRangeTools
Arcgis9ontheToolbarstab.
DraftHRTManualinAdobeAcrobatpdfformat(lastupdatedAugust10,2011)
DownloadtheHomeRangeExtension(HRE)forArcView3.x
HREManualinAdobeAcrobatpdfformat(WinZipfileincludingUser'sManual,TutorialGuide,and
TutorialExampleData)

http://flash.lakeheadu.ca/~arodgers/hre/

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HRESoftwareReleaseNoteinAdobeAcrobatpdfformat
Submitbugreport

http://flash.lakeheadu.ca/~arodgers/hre/

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