The flight of the hornbill: drift and diffusion in arboreal avian movement.

ABSTRACT: Capturing movement of animals in mathematical models has long been a keenly pursued direction of research¹. Any good model of animal movement is built upon information about the animal's environment and the available resources including whether prey is in abundance or scarce, densely distributed or sparse². Such an approach could enable the identification of certain quantities or measures from the model that are species-specific characteristics. We propose here a mechanistic model to describe the movement of two species of Asian hornbills in a resource-abundant heterogenous landscape which includes degraded forests and human settlements. Hornbill telemetry data was used to this end. The birds show a bias both towards features of attraction such as nesting and roosting

SUBMITTER: Vikrant A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7946904 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature