Movement predictability of individual barn owls facilitates estimation of home range size and survival.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is growing attention to individuality in movement, its causes and consequences. Similarly to other well-established personality traits (e.g., boldness or sociability), conspecifics also differ repeatedly in their spatial behaviors, forming behavioral types ("spatial-BTs"). These spatial-BTs are typically described as the difference in the mean-level among individuals, and the intra-individual variation (IIV, i.e., predictability) is only rarely considered. Furthermore, the factors determining predictability or its ecological consequences for broader space-use patterns are largely unknown, in part because predictability was mostly tested in captivity (e.g., with repeated boldness assays). Here we test if (i) individuals differ in their movement and specifically in t

SUBMITTER: Cain S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9906850 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature