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1. Animal space use has been studied by focusing either on geographic (e.g. home ranges, species' distribution) or on environmental (e.g. habitat use and selection) space. However, all patterns of space use emerge from individual movements, which are the primary means by which animals change th...

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Main Authors: Van Moorter, Bram, Rolandsen, Christer M., Basille, Mathieu, Gaillard, Jean-Michel
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: Dryad 2016
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.58j2m
https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.58j2m
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Summary:1. Animal space use has been studied by focusing either on geographic (e.g. home ranges, species' distribution) or on environmental (e.g. habitat use and selection) space. However, all patterns of space use emerge from individual movements, which are the primary means by which animals change their environment. 2. Individuals increase their use of a given area by adjusting two key movement components: the duration of their visit and/or the frequency of revisits. Thus, in spatially heterogeneous environments, animals exploit known, high-quality resource areas by increasing their residence time (RT) in and/or decreasing their time to return (TtoR) to these areas. We expected that spatial variation in these two movement properties should lead to observed patterns of space use in both geographic and environmental spaces. We derived a set of nine predictions linking spatial distribution of movement properties to emerging space-use patterns. We predicted that, at a given scale, high variation in RT and TtoR among ... : compressed data folderunzip and read the "readme.txt" for instructionsdata.zip ...