A01=Mark A. Lewis
A01=Paul R. Moorcroft
Abiotic component
Akaike information criterion
Author_Mark A. Lewis
Author_Paul R. Moorcroft
Autocorrelation
Bessel function
Boundary value problem
Buffer zone
Calculation
Carnivore
Cartesian coordinate system
Category=PSV
Center of mass (relativistic)
Circular distribution
Concentration parameter
Contour line
Curve fitting
Data set
Density estimation
Determinant
Dimension
Direction vector
Ecology
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eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_science
Equation
Estimation
Evolution
Expected value
Fitness function
Fokker-Planck equation
Functional analysis
Functional response
Geographic information system
Global Positioning System
Group selection
Home range
Information theory
Initial condition
Kernel method
Lagrangian
Lagrangian (field theory)
Likelihood function
Logarithm
Logistic map
Master equation
Mean squared displacement
Method of lines
Motoo Kimura
Multivariate normal distribution
Numerical analysis
Parameter
Pattern formation
Peter Turchin
Population genetics
Predation
Prediction
Probability density function
Probability distribution
Proportion (architecture)
Proportionality (mathematics)
Richard Levins
Spatial distribution
Spatial heterogeneity
Spatial organization
Spatial scale
Spatial variability
Special case
Speciation
Telemetry
Territory (animal)
Theory
Trade-off
Von Mises distribution
Wolf reintroduction
Product details
- ISBN 9780691009285
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 20 Aug 2006
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Spatial patterns of movement are fundamental to the ecology of animal populations, influencing their social organization, mating systems, demography, and the spatial distribution of prey and competitors. However, our ability to understand the causes and consequences of animal home range patterns has been limited by the descriptive nature of the statistical models used to analyze them. In Mechanistic Home Range Analysis, Paul Moorcroft and Mark Lewis develop a radically new framework for studying animal home range patterns based on the analysis of correlated random work models for individual movement behavior. They use this framework to develop a series of mechanistic home range models for carnivore populations.
The authors' analysis illustrates how, in contrast to traditional statistical home range models that merely describe pattern, mechanistic home range models can be used to discover the underlying ecological determinants of home range patterns observed in populations, make accurate predictions about how spatial distributions of home ranges will change following environmental or demographic disturbance, and analyze the functional significance of the movement strategies of individuals that give rise to observed patterns of space use. By providing researchers and graduate students of ecology and wildlife biology with a more illuminating way to analyze animal movement, Mechanistic Home Range Analysis will be an indispensable reference for years to come.
Paul R. Moorcroft is Associate Professor of Biology at Harvard University. Mark A. Lewis is Professor of Mathematics and Biology at the University of Alberta, where he holds a Senior Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Biology.
