Search Results - "Potts, Jonathan R."

Integrated step selection analysis: bridging the gap between resource selection and animal movement by Avgar, Tal, Potts, Jonathan R., Lewis, Mark A., Boyce, Mark S., Börger, Luca

“…Summary A resource selection function is a model of the likelihood that an available spatial unit will be used by an animal, given its resource value. But how…”
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Optimizing the use of biologgers for movement ecology research by Williams, Hannah J., Taylor, Lucy A., Benhamou, Simon, Bijleveld, Allert I., Clay, Thomas A., Grissac, Sophie, Demšar, Urška, English, Holly M., Franconi, Novella, Gómez‐Laich, Agustina, Griffiths, Rachael C., Kay, William P., Morales, Juan Manuel, Potts, Jonathan R., Rogerson, Katharine F., Rutz, Christian, Spelt, Anouk, Trevail, Alice M., Wilson, Rory P., Börger, Luca, Gaillard, Jean‐Michel

“…The paradigm‐changing opportunities of biologging sensors for ecological research, especially movement ecology, are vast, but the crucial questions of how best…”
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Animal interactions and the emergence of territoriality by Giuggioli, Luca, Potts, Jonathan R, Harris, Stephen

“…Inferring the role of interactions in territorial animals relies upon accurate recordings of the behaviour of neighbouring individuals. Such accurate…”
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Understanding step selection analysis through numerical integration by Michelot, Théo, Klappstein, Natasha J., Potts, Jonathan R., Fieberg, John

“…Step selection functions (SSFs) are flexible statistical models used to jointly describe animals' movement and habitat preferences. The popularity of SSFs has…”
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Territorial dynamics and stable home range formation for central place foragers by Potts, Jonathan R, Harris, Stephen, Giuggioli, Luca

“…Uncovering the mechanisms behind territory formation is a fundamental problem in behavioural ecology. The broad nature of the underlying conspecific avoidance…”
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Directionally Correlated Movement Can Drive Qualitative Changes in Emergent Population Distribution Patterns by Potts, Jonathan R.

“…A fundamental goal of ecology is to understand the spatial distribution of species. For moving animals, their location is crucially dependent on the movement…”
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Stigmergy, collective actions, and animal social spacing by Giuggioli, Luca, Potts, Jonathan R., Rubenstein, Daniel I., Levin, Simon A.

“…Collective animal behavior studies have led the way in developing models that account for a large number of individuals, but mostly have considered situations…”
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Unveiling trade-offs in resource selection of migratory caribou using a mechanistic movement model of availability by Bastille-Rousseau, Guillaume, Potts, Jonathan R., Schaefer, James A., Lewis, Mark A., Ellington, E. Hance, Rayl, Nathaniel D., Mahoney, Shane P., Murray, Dennis L.

“…Habitat selection is a multi-level, hierarchical process that should be a key component in the balance between food acquisition and predation risk avoidance…”
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Predicting local and non‐local effects of resources on animal space use using a mechanistic step selection model by Potts, Jonathan R., Bastille‐Rousseau, Guillaume, Murray, Dennis L., Schaefer, James A., Lewis, Mark A., Rands, Sean

“…Summary Predicting space use patterns of animals from their interactions with the environment is fundamental for understanding the effect of habitat changes on…”
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Finding turning‐points in ultra‐high‐resolution animal movement data by Potts, Jonathan R., Börger, Luca, Scantlebury, D. Michael, Bennett, Nigel C., Alagaili, Abdulaziz, Wilson, Rory P., Codling, Edward

“…Recent advances in biologging have resulted in animal location data at unprecedentedly high temporal resolutions, sometimes many times per second. However,…”
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How to scale up from animal movement decisions to spatiotemporal patterns: An approach via step selection by Potts, Jonathan R., Börger, Luca

“…Uncovering the mechanisms behind animal space use patterns is of vital importance for predictive ecology, thus conservation and management of ecosystems…”
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Highlighting when animals expend excessive energy for travel using dynamic body acceleration by Wilson, Rory P., Reynolds, Samantha D., Potts, Jonathan R., Redcliffe, James, Holton, Mark, Buxton, Abi, Rose, Kayleigh, Norman, Bradley M.

“…Travel represents a major cost for many animals so there should be selection pressure for it to be efficient – at minimum cost. However, animals sometimes…”
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An “orientation sphere” visualization for examining animal head movements by Wilson, Rory P., Williams, Hannah J., Holton, Mark D., Virgilio, Agustina, Börger, Luca, Potts, Jonathan R., Gunner, Richard, Arkwright, Alex, Fahlman, Andreas, Bennett, Nigel C., Alagaili, Abdulaziz, Cole, Nik C., Duarte, Carlos M., Scantlebury, David M.

“…Animal behavior is elicited, in part, in response to external conditions, but understanding how animals perceive the environment and make the decisions that…”
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Step selection techniques uncover the environmental predictors of space use patterns in flocks of Amazonian birds by Potts, Jonathan R., Mokross, Karl, Stouffer, Philip C., Lewis, Mark A.

“…Understanding the behavioral decisions behind animal movement and space use patterns is a key challenge for behavioral ecology. Tools to quantify these…”
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How do animal territories form and change? Lessons from 20 years of mechanistic modelling by Potts, Jonathan R., Lewis, Mark A.

“…Territory formation is ubiquitous throughout the animal kingdom. At the individual level, various behaviours attempt to exclude conspecifics from regions of…”
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A Mathematical Approach to Territorial Pattern Formation by Potts, Jonathan R., Lewis, Mark A.

“…Territorial behavior is widespread in the animal kingdom, with creatures seeking to gain parts of space for their exclusive use. It arises through a…”
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Beyond resource selection: emergent spatio–temporal distributions from animal movements and stigmergent interactions by Potts, Jonathan R., Giunta, Valeria, Lewis, Mark A.

“…A principal concern of ecological research is to unveil the causes behind observed spatio–temporal distributions of species. A key tactic is to correlate…”
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Variations in non-local interaction range lead to emergent chase-and-run in heterogeneous populations by Painter, Kevin J, Giunta, Valeria, Potts, Jonathan R, Bernardi, Sara

“…In a chase-and-run dynamic, the interaction between two individuals is such that one moves towards the other (the chaser), while the other moves away (the…”
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Spatial Memory and Taxis-Driven Pattern Formation in Model Ecosystems by Potts, Jonathan R., Lewis, Mark A.

“…Mathematical models of spatial population dynamics typically focus on the interplay between dispersal events and birth/death processes. However, for many…”
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Detecting minimum energy states and multi-stability in nonlocal advection–diffusion models for interacting species by Giunta, Valeria, Hillen, Thomas, Lewis, Mark A., Potts, Jonathan R.

“…Deriving emergent patterns from models of biological processes is a core concern of mathematical biology. In the context of partial differential equations,…”
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