Are there general mechanisms of animal home range behaviour? A review and prospects for future research

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“GIS technologies and least-cost analysis tools, such as Linkage Mapper [19] and Circuitscape [20], have demonstrated their potential in diverse fields, from biodiversity conservation to the study of ecological networks [21–25].”

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“This setup provides a much more realistic simulation of mobility in complex landscapes—a central principle in applying circuit theory, which assumes the existence of multiple alternative paths between nodes. The Circuitscape user guide explicitly describes this option as using either four first-order or eight first- and second-order neighbors [22].”

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“These represent the most efficient and, most likely, the most frequented routes between sites, suggesting direct and recurrent routes in the logic of Neanderthal mobility [22,51].”

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“Circuitscape uses an analogy with electric current to simulate how flow “flows” between sources through a resistive medium [22,23], in our case represented by the cost raster in Fig 3, the same one used for Linkage Mapper.”