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Uncovering behavioural states from animal activity and site fidelity patterns
Methods in Ecology and Evolution (2017)
  • Julie Young
Abstract
Space use by animals has important implications for individual fitness. However, resource requirements often vary throughout the course of a lifetime and are a reflection of the demands associated with daily tasks or specific life-history phases, from food acquisition to reproduction, and emphasize the need to classify resource selection relative to specific behavioural states. Site fidelity is often indicative of behaviours important for individual maintenance (e.g. foraging), species' life history (e.g. seasonal site selection), social communication (e.g. scent-marking) and species interactions (e.g. predation, competition). Thus, resolving site fidelity patterns associated with key behaviours is essential to accurately quantify behavioural-dependent resource needs and the fitness consequences of space use.
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Publication Date
2017
DOI
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12658
Citation Information
Mahoney, PJ and Young, JK. 2017. Uncovering behavioural states from animal activity and site fidelity patterns. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8(2):174-183. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12658