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Mechanistic Home Range Analysis. (MPB-43)

MARK A. LEWIS, PAUL R. MOORCROFT

2013

Overview

Spatial patterns of movement are fundamental to the ecology of animal populations, influencing their social organization, mating systems, demography, and the spatial distribution of prey and competitors. However, our ability to understand the causes and consequences of animal home range patterns has been limited by the descriptive nature of the statistical models used to analyze them. InMechanistic Home Range Analysis, Paul Moorcroft and Mark Lewis develop a radically new framework for studying animal home range patterns based on the analysis of correlated random work models for individual movement behavior. They use this framework to develop a series of mechanistic home range models for carnivore populations. The authors' analysis illustrates how, in contrast to traditional statistical home range models that merely describe pattern, mechanistic home range models can be used to discover the underlying ecological determinants of home range patterns observed in populations, make accurate predictions about how spatial distributions of home ranges will change following environmental or demographic disturbance, and analyze the functional significance of the movement strategies of individuals that give rise to observed patterns of space use. By providing researchers and graduate students of ecology and wildlife biology with a more illuminating way to analyze animal movement,Mechanistic Home Range Analysiswill be an indispensable reference for years to come.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: Abiotic component / Akaike information criterion / Autocorrelation / Bessel function / Boundary value problem / Buffer zone / Calculation / Carnivore / Cartesian coordinate system / Center of mass (relativistic) / Circular distribution / Concentration parameter / Contour line / Curve fitting / Density estimation / Determinant / Dimension / Direction vector / Ecology / Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Equation / Estimation / Evolution / Expected value / Fitness function / Fokker–Planck equation / Functional analysis / Functional response / Geographic information system / Global Positioning System / Group selection / Home range / Information theory / Initial condition / Kernel method / Lagrangian / Lagrangian (field theory) / Likelihood function / Logarithm / Logistic map / Master equation / Mean squared displacement / Method of lines / Motoo Kimura / Multivariate normal distribution / Numerical analysis / Parameter / Pattern formation / Peter Turchin / Population genetics / Predation / Prediction / Probability density function / Probability distribution / Proportion (architecture) / Proportionality (mathematics) / Richard Levins / SCIENCE / SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology / Spatial distribution / Spatial heterogeneity / Spatial organization / Spatial scale / Spatial variability / Special case / Speciation / Telemetry / Territory (animal) / Theory / Trade-off / Von Mises distribution / Wolf reintroduction
• ISBN: 9780691009285, 0691009287, 9781400849734, 140084973X