Big-data approaches lead to an increased understanding of the ecology of animal movement

R Nathan, CT Monk, R Arlinghaus, T Adam, J Alós… - Science, 2022‏ - science.org
Understanding animal movement is essential to elucidate how animals interact, survive, and
thrive in a changing world. Recent technological advances in data collection and …

Uncovering ecological state dynamics with hidden Markov models

BT McClintock, R Langrock, O Gimenez, E Cam… - Ecology …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Ecological systems can often be characterised by changes among a finite set of underlying
states pertaining to individuals, populations, communities or entire ecosystems through time …

Optimizing the use of biologgers for movement ecology research

HJ Williams, LA Taylor, S Benhamou… - Journal of Animal …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
The paradigm‐changing opportunities of biologging sensors for ecological research,
especially movement ecology, are vast, but the crucial questions of how best to match the …

Quantifying the movement, behaviour and environmental context of group‐living animals using drones and computer vision

B Koger, A Deshpande, JT Kerby… - Journal of Animal …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Methods for collecting animal behaviour data in natural environments, such as direct
observation and biologging, are typically limited in spatiotemporal resolution, the number of …

moveHMM: an R package for the statistical modelling of animal movement data using hidden Markov models

T Michelot, R Langrock… - Methods in Ecology and …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Due to the substantial progress in tracking technology, recent years have seen an explosion
in the amount of movement data being collected. This has led to a huge demand for …

Selecting the number of states in hidden Markov models: pragmatic solutions illustrated using animal movement

J Pohle, R Langrock, FM Van Beest… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2017‏ - Springer
We discuss the notorious problem of order selection in hidden Markov models, that is of
selecting an adequate number of states, highlighting typical pitfalls and practical challenges …

Hidden Markov models: Pitfalls and opportunities in ecology

R Glennie, T Adam, V Leos‐Barajas… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Hidden Markov models (HMMs) and their extensions are attractive methods for
analysing ecological data where noisy, multivariate measurements are made of a hidden …

Recent trends in movement ecology of animals and human mobility

R Joo, S Picardi, ME Boone, TA Clay, SC Patrick… - Movement ecology, 2022‏ - Springer
Movement is fundamental to life, sha** population dynamics, biodiversity patterns, and
ecosystem structure. In 2008, the movement ecology framework (MEF Nathan et al. in PNAS …

Habitat selection patterns are density dependent under the ideal free distribution

T Avgar, GS Betini, JM Fryxell - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Despite being widely used, habitat selection models are rarely reliable and informative
when applied across different ecosystems or over time. One possible explanation is that …

An integrated path for spatial capture–recapture and animal movement modeling

BT McClintock, B Abrahms, RB Chandler, PB Conn… - Ecology, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Ecologists and conservation biologists increasingly rely on spatial capture–recapture (SCR)
and movement modeling to study animal populations. Historically, SCR has focused on …