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Velocity-Based Movement Modeling for Individual and Population Level Inference

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  • Ephraim M Hanks
  • Mevin B Hooten
  • Devin S Johnson
  • Jeremy T Sterling

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Understanding animal movement and resource selection provides important information about the ecology of the animal, but an animal's movement and behavior are not typically constant in time. We present a velocity-based approach for modeling animal movement in space and time that allows for temporal heterogeneity in an animal's response to the environment, allows for temporal irregularity in telemetry data, and accounts for the uncertainty in the location information. Population-level inference on movement patterns and resource selection can then be made through cluster analysis of the parameters related to movement and behavior. We illustrate this approach through a study of northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) movement in the Bering Sea, Alaska, USA. Results show sex differentiation, with female northern fur seals exhibiting stronger response to environmental variables.

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  • Ephraim M Hanks & Mevin B Hooten & Devin S Johnson & Jeremy T Sterling, 2011. "Velocity-Based Movement Modeling for Individual and Population Level Inference," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 6(8), pages 1-17, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0022795
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022795
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    1. Bauduin, Sarah & McIntire, Eliot & St-Laurent, Martin-Hugues & Cumming, Steve, 2016. "Overcoming challenges of sparse telemetry data to estimate caribou movement," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 335(C), pages 24-34.
    2. Ephraim M. Hanks & Devin S. Johnson & Mevin B. Hooten, 2017. "Reflected Stochastic Differential Equation Models for Constrained Animal Movement," Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, Springer;The International Biometric Society;American Statistical Association, vol. 22(3), pages 353-372, September.
    3. Henry Scharf & Mevin B. Hooten & Devin S. Johnson, 2017. "Imputation Approaches for Animal Movement Modeling," Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, Springer;The International Biometric Society;American Statistical Association, vol. 22(3), pages 335-352, September.

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