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Predicting animal home‐range structure and transitions using a multistate Ornstein‐Uhlenbeck biased random walk

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Title
Predicting animal home‐range structure and transitions using a multistate Ornstein‐Uhlenbeck biased random walk
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Ecology, November 2016
DOI 10.1002/ecy.1615
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Greg A. Breed, Emily A. Golson, M. Tim Tinker

Abstract

The home-range concept is central in animal ecology and behavior, and numerous mechanistic models have been developed to understand home range formation and maintenance. These mechanistic models usually assume a single, contiguous home range. Here we describe and implement a simple home-range model that can accommodate multiple home-range centers, form complex shapes, allow discontinuities in use patterns, and infer how external and internal variables affect movement and use patterns. The model assumes individuals associate with two or more home-range centers and move among them with some estimable probability. Movement in and around home-range centers is governed by a two-dimensional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, while transitions between centers are modeled as a stochastic state-switching process. We augmented this base model by introducing environmental and demographic covariates that modify transition probabilities between home-range centers and can be estimated to provide insight into the movement process. We demonstrate the model using telemetry data from sea otters (Enhydra lutris) in California. The model was fit using a Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo method, which estimated transition probabilities, as well as unique Ornstein-Uhlenbeck diffusion and centralizing tendency parameters. Estimated parameters could then be used to simulate movement and space use that was virtually indistinguishable from real data. We used Deviance Information Criterion (DIC) scores to assess model fit and determined that both wind and reproductive status were predictive of transitions between home-range centers. Females were less likely to move between home-range centers on windy days, less likely to move between centers when tending pups, and much more likely to move between centers just after weaning a pup. These tendencies are predicted by theoretical movement rules but were not previously known and show that our model can extract meaningful behavioral insight from complex movement data.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 <1%
Hungary 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 119 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 27 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 20%
Student > Master 18 15%
Student > Bachelor 12 10%
Other 6 5%
Other 18 15%
Unknown 18 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 65 53%
Environmental Science 15 12%
Mathematics 4 3%
Physics and Astronomy 4 3%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 3 2%
Other 10 8%
Unknown 22 18%
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