Elephant Seal Movements: Modelling Migration
Elephant seals migrate over vast areas of the eastern North Pacific Ocean between rookeries in Southern California and distant northern foraging areas. Several models of particle movement were evaluated and a model for great circle motion found to give reasonable results for the movement of an adult...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.53.4800 2023-05-15T16:05:08+02:00 Elephant Seal Movements: Modelling Migration David R. Brillinger Brent S. Stewart The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 0 application/postscript http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.53.4800 http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/brill/Papers/ssc.ps en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.53.4800 http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/brill/Papers/ssc.ps Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/brill/Papers/ssc.ps Key words and phrases Animal migration Diffusion process Drift Elephant seal Great circle route Likelihood Spherical motion Stochastic differential text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T10:32:48Z Elephant seals migrate over vast areas of the eastern North Pacific Ocean between rookeries in Southern California and distant northern foraging areas. Several models of particle movement were evaluated and a model for great circle motion found to give reasonable results for the movement of an adult female. This model takes specific account of the fact that the movement is on the surface of a sphere and that the animal is apparently heading toward a particular destination. The parameters of the motion were estimated. Such a great circle path of migration may imply that these seals have the ability to assess their position with respect to some global or celestial cues, allowing them to continually adjust their ____________ *The work of DRB supported by the Office of Naval Research Grant N0001494 -1-0042 and the National Science Foundation Grant DMS-9625774. Elephant seal dive data were collected in previous studies with partial support of a contract to BSS from the Space and Missile C. Text Elephant Seal Elephant Seals Unknown Pacific |
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Elephant seals migrate over vast areas of the eastern North Pacific Ocean between rookeries in Southern California and distant northern foraging areas. Several models of particle movement were evaluated and a model for great circle motion found to give reasonable results for the movement of an adult female. This model takes specific account of the fact that the movement is on the surface of a sphere and that the animal is apparently heading toward a particular destination. The parameters of the motion were estimated. Such a great circle path of migration may imply that these seals have the ability to assess their position with respect to some global or celestial cues, allowing them to continually adjust their ____________ *The work of DRB supported by the Office of Naval Research Grant N0001494 -1-0042 and the National Science Foundation Grant DMS-9625774. Elephant seal dive data were collected in previous studies with partial support of a contract to BSS from the Space and Missile C. |
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