The Research Of Animal Movement group discusses techniques and analysis for data that tracks animals in time and space, and revel in the delights of movement ecology. We seek to increase capacity building in our community to support effective delivery of research and increase research outcomes using the most adequate tools for the job.

Posts

Git and GitHub

talk

code

tools

An intro to using github for collaboration

Guest speaker - Dr Takahiro Shimada and his SDLfilter R package

tracking

sample size

utilization distribution

software

guest speaker

Shimada

Optimising sample sizes for animal distribution analysis using tracking data

Implications of selecting home range estimators

space-use

A discussion on A comprehensive analysis of autocorrelation and bias in home range estimation by Noonan et al 2019.

Diving into 3rd-gen space use estimators

space-use

Learning more about Movement-based Kernel Density Estimate (MKDE) and the Autocorrelated Kernel Density Estimate (AKDE).

Space-use estimators

space-use

tools

summary

A review on some of the common methods of space use estimation for animal movement.

Introduction to Movebank and MoveVis

tools

A summary of our Movebank MoveVis session.

Markdown example

markdown

A minimal example of using markdown with Quarto.