Analysis of movement recursions to detect reproductive events and estimate their fate in central place foragers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recursive movement patterns have been used to detect behavioral structure within individual movement trajectories in the context of foraging ecology, home-ranging behavior, and predator avoidance. Some animals exhibit movement recursions to locations that are tied to reproductive functions, including nests and dens; while existing literature recognizes that, no method is currently available to explicitly target different types of revisited locations. Moreover, the temporal persistence of recursive movements to a breeding location can carry information regarding the fate of breeding attempts, but it has never been used as a metric to quantify recursive movement patterns. Here, we introduce a method to locate breeding attempts and estimate their fate from GPS-tracking data

SUBMITTER: Picardi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7268620 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature