What is the animal doing? Tools for exploring behavioural structure in animal movements
Abstract
Movement data provide a window – often our only window – into the cognitive, social and biological processes that underlie the behavioural ecology of animals in the wild. Robust methods for identifying and interpreting distinct modes of movement behaviour are of great importance, but complicated by the fact that movement data are complex, multivariate and dependent. Many different approaches to exploratory analysis of movement have been developed to answer similar questions, and practitioners are often at a loss for how to choose an appropriate tool for a specific question.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Jul 23, 2015
- Source ID
- 10.1111/1365-2656.12379
Entities
People
- C. Michael Wagner
- Chloe Bracis
- Eliezer Gurarie
- Ilpo Kojola
- Maria Delgado
- Trevor D. Meckley
Organizations
- Kone Foundation
- Michigan State University
- National Science Foundation
- Natural Resources Institute
- Research Council of Finland
- Research Council of Norway
- University of Helsinki
- University of Maryland
- University of Oviedo
- University of Washington