Unveiling the roles of temporal periodicity, the spatial environment and behavioural modes in terrestrial animal movement.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Animal movement arises from complex interactions between animals and their heterogeneous environment. To better understand the movement process, it can be divided into behavioural, temporal and spatial components. Although methods exist to address those various components, it remains challenging to integrate them in a single movement analysis.

Methods

We present an analytic workflow that integrates the behavioural, temporal and spatial components of the movement process and their interactions, which also allows for the assessment of the relative importance of those components. We construct a daily cyclic covariate to represent temporally cyclic movement patterns, such as diel variation in activity, and combine the three components in a multi-modal Hidden Markov Mo

SUBMITTER: Linssen H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11348775 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature