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Activity Number:
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497
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Type:
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Invited
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistics and the Environment
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| Abstract - #302965 |
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Title:
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Modeling Animal Movement in Response to Landscapes
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Author(s):
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Jun Zhu*+
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Companies:
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Address:
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Dept of Statistics, Madison, WI, ,
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Keywords:
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animal ecology ; circular data ; conservation connectivity ; movement ecology ; von Mises distribution
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Abstract:
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Movement of animals in landscape is an important subject in ecology and conservation biology. Many of the models used by ecologists do not account for landscape features and thus may not be conducive to the analysis of animal movement data. Here we present statistical models that feature animal movement in relation to objects in a landscape. Statistical inference is via maximum likelihood and computational algorithms are developed for fitting different models. For illustration, we analyze animal movement data in conservation connectivity.
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