Reptiles on the wrong track? Moving beyond traditional estimators with dynamic Brownian Bridge Movement Models.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Animal movement expressed through home ranges or space-use can offer insights into spatial and habitat requirements. However, different classes of estimation methods are currently instinctively applied to answer home range, space-use or movement-based research questions regardless of their widely varying outputs, directly impacting conclusions. Recent technological advances in animal tracking (GPS and satellite tags), have enabled new methods to quantify animal space-use and movement pathways, but so far have primarily targeted mammal and avian species.

Methods

Most reptile spatial ecology studies only make use of two older home range estimation methods: Minimum Convex Polygons (MCP) and Kernel Density Estimators (KDE), particularly with the Least Squares Cross Va

SUBMITTER: Silva I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7592577 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature