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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
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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)

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