Mechanistic Home Range Analysis. (MPB-43).
Title:
Mechanistic Home Range Analysis. (MPB-43).
Author:
Moorcroft, Paul R.
ISBN:
9781400849734
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (205 pages)
Series:
Monographs in Population Biology ; v.43
Monographs in Population Biology
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Statistical Home Range Analysis -- 1.2. Mechanistic Home Range Analysis -- 2. From Individual Behavior to Patterns of Space Use -- 2.1. Movement in One Dimension -- 2.2. Movement in Two Dimensions -- 2.3. Directed and Random Motion -- 2.4. Predicting Home Range Patterns -- 2.5. Summary -- 3. A Simple Mechanistic Home Range Model -- 3.1. Model of Individual Movement Behavior -- 3.2. Characterizing the Movement Behavior of a Red Fox -- 3.3. Equations for Patterns of Space Use -- 3.4. Solving for Patterns of Space Use -- 3.5. Predicted Red Fox Home Range -- 3.6. Coyote Home Range Patterns -- 3.7. Summary -- 4. A Model Based on Conspecific Avoidance -- 4.1. Model Formulation -- 4.2. Equations for Space Use -- 4.3. Empirical Evaluation of the Model -- 4.4. Summary -- 5. Comparative Analysis of Home Range Patterns Predicted by the Conspecific Avoidance Model -- 5.1. Predicted Patterns of Space Use -- 5.2. Border versus Hinterland Scent Marking -- 5.3. The Distribution of Scent Marks along Boundaries -- 5.4. Summary -- 6. Mathematical Analysis of the Conspecific Avoidance Model -- 6.1. Model Equations -- 6.2. Impact of the Scent-Marking Response -- 6.3. Existence of a Buffer Zone -- 6.4. Generalized Response Functions -- 6.5. Summary -- 7. The Influence of Landscape and Resource Heterogeneity on Patterns of Space Use -- 7.1. Landscape Heterogeneity -- 7.2. Resource Heterogeneity and Foraging Behavior -- 7.3. Model Predictions -- 7.4. Summary -- 8. Home Range Formation in the Absence of a Den Site -- 8.1. Model Formulation -- 8.2. Analysis -- 8.3. Summary -- 9. Secondary Ecological Interactions -- 9.1. Wolf-Deer Interactions -- 9.2. Wolf-Coyote Interactions -- 9.3. Summary -- 10. Displacement Distances: Theory and Applications -- 10.1. The Minimum Convex Polygon Method.
10.2. Mean-Absolute and Mean-Squared Displacement -- 10.3. Summary -- 11. ESS Analysis of Movement Strategies: Analyzing the Functional Significance of Home Range Patterns -- 11.1. Evolutionarily Stable Movement Strategy for Interacting Wolf Packs -- 11.2. Analysis -- 11.3. Roles of Aggression and Signaling -- 11.4. Summary -- 12. Future Directions and Synthesis -- Appendixes -- A Derivation of the Fokker-Planck Equation for Space Use -- B Alternative Derivation of the Space Use Equation -- C Autocorrelation in Movement Direction -- D Estimating the Parameters of the Localizing Tendency Model -- E Movement with Attraction toward a Den -- F Model Fitting -- G Numerical Methods for Solving Space Use Equations -- H Displacement Distances -- I ESS Analysis Model Parameters -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
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. In Mechanistic 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 Analysis will be an indispensable reference for years to come.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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