AMoveE 2014: Yun Tao
Channel: Movebank
Date: 23/05/2014

This talk was presented by Yun Tao on 6 May 2014 as part of the Symposium on Animal Movement and the Environment, held at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh.

Tao Y, Hastings A, 2014, "Transient animal home range: methods and applications"

Abstract: The field of movement ecology has undergone a veritable transformation in recent years, encompassing an increasing number of interdisciplinary offshoots. Transient analyses represent one of the most ground-breaking developments to date, and incorporation of such techniques seem poised to jumpstart a paradigm shift for the entire field. The basis of transient approaches lies in biologically relevant timescales as opposed to older models that generally ignore them due to technical limitations (e.g., data resolution, numerics), many of which have rapidly diminished in the past few years. This advanced approach has profound implications in ecosystem management where predictions need to be far more reliable on short-terms to accommodate environments that are subject to frequent perturbations. Using a newly designed computational platform built on finite volume method, we are able to explore animal home range dynamics free from the traditional restriction of sampling frequency, and consequently, indicate potential underestimation of animal space use in natural reserves. By solving movement models over a time continuum, this simulation framework presents new opportunities for enhanced association between theory and data in the near future.