ABSTRACT The growing field of movement ecology uses high resolution movement data to analyze animal behavior across multiple scales: from individual foraging decisions to population-level space-use patterns. These analyses contribute to various subfields of ecology – inter alia behavioral, disease, landscape, resource, and wildlife – and facilitate novel exploration in fields ranging from conservation planning to public health. Despite the growing availability and general accessibility of animal movement data, much potential remains for the analytical methods of movement ecology to be incorporated in all types of geographic analyses. This review provides for the Geographical Information Sciences (GIS) community an overview of the most common movement metrics and methods of analysis employed by animal ecologists. Through illustrative applications, we emphasize the potential for movement analyses to promote transdisciplinary GIS/wildlife-ecology research.

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GPS运动数据的生态度量和方法

摘要 不断发展的运动生态学领域使用高分辨率运动数据来分析多个尺度的动物行为：从个体觅食决策到种群水平的空间使用模式。这些分析对生态学的各个子领域做出了贡献——尤其是行为、疾病、景观、资源和野生动物——并促进了从保护规划到公共卫生等领域的新颖探索。尽管动物运动数据的可用性和普遍可及性不断增长，但将运动生态学的分析方法纳入所有类型的地理分析中仍然有很大的潜力。本综述为地理信息科学 (GIS) 界提供了动物生态学家最常见的运动指标和分析方法的概述。通过说明性应用，我们强调运动分析促进跨学科 GIS/野生动物生态学研究的潜力。