BECAT Workshop Tom Meyer Department of Natural Resources and the Environment 16 May 2013
Animal Movement Modeling
GPS Tracking Collars on Mountain lions Wolves Grizzly bears Elk Deer Reliable horizontal coordinates Resource utilization Home range modeling
One collar, real data
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Moving-Resting Process NSF Proposal (Mathematical Biology) Utility-Distribution Modeling Using New Moving/Resting Processes Pozdynakov, V.; Meyer, T.; Wang, Y.; Yan, J (in review) On Modeling Animal Movements Using Brownian Motion with Measurement Error. Ecology Yan et al. (in review) A Moving-Resting Process with an Embedded Brownian Motion for Animal Movements. Population Ecology.
The discrete UD
Honors boundaries Is temporally explicit Gives rise to home range as an emergent concept Immediately useful for resource utilization studies Has computational complexity of 7 n so heuristics, data structures, algorithms, and lots of cycles are needed
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