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State–space models of individual animal movement

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PATTERSON, T, THOMAS, L, WILCOX, C, OVASKAINEN, O, MATTHIOPOULOS, J·2008·Trends in Ecology & Evolution

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Detailed observation of the movement of individual animals offers the potential to understand spatial population processes as the ultimate consequence of individual behaviour, physiological constraints and fine-scale environmental influences. However, movement data from individuals are intrinsically stochastic and often subject to severe observation error. Linking such complex data to dynamical models of movement is a major challenge for animal ecology. Here, we review a statistical approach, state-space modelling, which involves changing how we analyse movement data and draw inferences about the behaviours that shape it. The statistical robustness and predictive ability of state-space models make them the most promising avenue towards a new type of movement ecology that fuses insights from the study of animal behaviour, biogeography and spatial population dynamics.

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Authors
PATTERSON, T., THOMAS, L., WILCOX, C., OVASKAINEN, O., & MATTHIOPOULOS, J.
Venue
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2008-02
Volume
23
Issue
2
Pages
87-94
ISSN
0169-5347 (ISSN-L)
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W2057314736
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4.84
Type
journal article
Language
en
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PATTERSON, T., THOMAS, L., WILCOX, C., OVASKAINEN, O., & MATTHIOPOULOS, J. (2008). State–space models of individual animal movement. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2007.10.009

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