In umd-lib/animalmove: Analysis of animal population-level movement patterns

An Introduction to the animalmove package

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Introduction

The animalmove package provides a series statistical analyses of the spatio-temporal animal movement patterns at the population level. The package implement analyses described in the original paper "How landscape dynamics link individualto population-level movement patterns:a multispecies comparison of ungulate relocation data" (Mueller T., et. al, 2011).

We start with the import of the library animalmove in R environment. The package can be installed in the local system from the source package archive for OS X or Win platform.

Load package library

library(animalmove)

Package Installation

Statistical Analyses

There are three statistical analyses in the package:

Realized Mobility Index

Population Dispersion Index

Movement Coordination Index

Each of the analyses incorporates the methodology described in the paper, and produces a numerical outcome, which can assesed by the examining the result set or summarized and visualized the custom summaries and high-level functions.

The analyses assume the relocation data of multiple species are preliminary syncronized and preprocessed by time and space dimensions.

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