elephantmove: elephant move

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elephant move

Description

Movement data from 35 African elephants between 2008 and 2015 from Abrahms et al. (2017), Tsalyuk et al. (2019), Hertel et al. (2020).

Usage

elephantmove

Format

A data frame with 3766 rows and 9 variables:

animal_id

integer unique identifier associated with each individual elephant

Week_id

integer unique identifier for each week in the data set

meanDailyDisplacement

double mean daily movement distance (km)

meanRT

double mean residence time

tac

double turn angle correlation

week

double week of obsevation

month

double month of observation

year

double year of observation

Sex

integer sex of the individual

Source

Abrahms, B., Seidel, D. P., Dougherty, E., Hazen, E. L., Bograd, S. J., Wilson, A. M., ... & Getz, W. M. (2017). Suite of simple metrics reveals common movement syndromes across vertebrate taxa. Movement ecology, 5(1), 1-11.

Tsalyuk, M., Kilian, W., Reineking, B., & Getz, W. M. (2019). Temporal variation in resource selection of African elephants follows long‐term variability in resource availability. Ecological Monographs, 89(2), e01348.

Hertel, A. G., Niemelä, P. T., Dingemanse, N. J., & Mueller, T. (2020). A guide for studying among-individual behavioral variation from movement data in the wild. Movement ecology, 8(1), 1-18.

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