Categorizing the geometry of animal diel movement patterns with examples from high-resolution barn owl tracking.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Movement is central to understanding the ecology of animals. The most robustly definable segments of an individual's lifetime track are its diel activity routines (DARs). This robustness is due to fixed start and end points set by a 24-h clock that depends on the individual's quotidian schedule. An analysis of day-to-day variation in the DARs of individuals, their comparisons among individuals, and the questions that can be asked, particularly in the context of lunar and annual cycles, depends on the relocation frequency and spatial accuracy of movement data. Here we present methods for categorizing the geometry of DARs for high frequency (seconds to minutes) movement data.

Methods

Our method involves an initial categorization of DARs using data pooled across all

SUBMITTER: Luisa Vissat L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10029274 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature