A guide for studying among-individual behavioral variation from movement data in the wild.

ABSTRACT: Animal tracking and biologging devices record large amounts of data on individual movement behaviors in natural environments. In these data, movement ecologists often view unexplained variation around the mean as "noise" when studying patterns at the population level. In the field of behavioral ecology, however, focus has shifted from population means to the biological underpinnings of variation around means. Specifically, behavioral ecologists use repeated measures of individual behavior to partition behavioral variability into intrinsic among-individual variation and reversible behavioral plasticity and to quantify: a) individual variation in behavioral types (i.e. different average behavioral expression), b) individual variation in behavioral plasticity (i.e. different responsiveness of

SUBMITTER: Hertel AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7325061 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature