A new index for measuring perpendicularity of animal movements in relation to patch boundaries |
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Authors: | Ken A Aho Ryan A Long R Terry Bowyer |
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Institution: | Department of Biological Sciences, 921 South 8th Avenue, Stop 8007, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID 83209, USA |
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Abstract: | We introduce a new index for measuring perpendicularity of animal movements with respect to a boundary (e.g., a habitat patch edge), and provide a computer algorithm for its calculation. Our index, η, improves on an approach that measures perpendicularity with respect to a fixed boundary direction. This is because η accounts for moment-to-moment trajectories relative to nearest-neighbor boundary attributes at the scale of an animal's movement. Our algorithm prp calculates η efficiently and accurately with both synthetic data and large telemetry datasets. In addition, we have included routines in prp which account for scenarios inherently problematic to perpendicularity estimators. |
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Keywords: | Perpendicularity Patch Animal movement R |
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