Multi-scale movement syndromes for comparative analyses of animal movement patterns.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Animal movement is a behavioral trait shaped by the need to find food and suitable habitat, avoid predators, and reproduce. Using high-resolution tracking data, it is possible to describe movement in greater detail than ever before, which has led to many discoveries about the behavioral strategies of particular species. Recently, enough data been become available to enable a comparative approach, which has the potential to uncover general causes and consequences of variation in movement patterns, but which must be scale specific.

Methods

Here we introduce a new multi-scale movement syndrome (MSMS) framework for describing and comparing animal movements and use it to explore the behavior of four sympatric mammals. MSMS incorporates four hierarchical scales of anima

SUBMITTER: Kays R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10552421 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature