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- Title
Dynamic approach to space and habitat use based on biased random bridges.
- Authors
Benhamou, Simon
- Abstract
Although habitat use reflects a dynamic process, most studies assess habitat use statically as if an animal's successively recorded locations reflected a point rather than a movement process. By relying on the activity time between successive locations instead of the local density of individual locations, movement-based methods can substantially improve the biological relevance of utilization distribution (UD) estimates (i.e. the relative frequencies with which an animal uses the various areas of its home range, HR). One such method rests on Brownian bridges (BBs). Its theoretical foundation (purely and constantly diffusive movements) is paradoxically inconsistent with both HR settlement and habitat selection. An alternative involves movement-based kernel density estimation (MKDE) through location interpolation, which may be applied to various movement behaviours but lacks a sound theoretical basis.
- Publication
PloS one, 2011, Vol 6, Issue 1, pe14592
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0014592