One size does not fit all: Flexible models are required to understand animal movement across scales

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1088-1096

  Yackulic, Charles B ^a,f   Blake, Stephen ^b,c,d   Deem, Sharon ^b,e   Kock, Michael ^b   Uriarte, María ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^e SAINT LOUIS ZOO   (United States)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Directional bias; Latent states; Model complexity; Random walk; Scaling

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ELEPHANT; MOVEMENT; PARAMETERIZATION; POPULATION MODELING; RANDOM WALK METHOD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONGO; ECOSYSTEM; ELEPHANT; FEMALE; GABON; MALE; POPULATION MIGRATION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TIME;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CONGO; ECOSYSTEM; ELEPHANTS; FEMALE; GABON; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; LOXODONTA CYCLOTIS;

EID: 79960842944     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01851.x     Document Type: Article

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