@article {522446,
	title = {Stochastic modelling of animal movement},
	journal = {Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences},
	volume = {365},
	number = {1550},
	year = {2010},
	note = {<p>612SMTimes Cited:56Cited References Count:117</p>},
	month = {Jul 27},
	pages = {2201-2211},
	abstract = {<p>Modern animal movement modelling derives from two traditions. Lagrangian models, based on random walk behaviour, are useful for multi-step trajectories of single animals. Continuous Eulerian models describe expected behaviour, averaged over stochastic realizations, and are usefully applied to ensembles of individuals. We illustrate three modern research arenas. (i) Models of homerange formation describe the process of an animal {\textquoteright}settling down{\textquoteright}, accomplished by including one or more focal points that attract the animal{\textquoteright}s movements. (ii) Memory-based models are used to predict how accumulated experience translates into biased movement choices, employing reinforced random walk behaviour, with previous visitation increasing or decreasing the probability of repetition. (iii) Levy movement involves a step-length distribution that is over-dispersed, relative to standard probability distributions, and adaptive in exploring new environments or searching for rare targets. Each of these modelling arenas implies more detail in the movement pattern than general models of movement can accommodate, but realistic empiric evaluation of their predictions requires dense locational data, both in time and space, only available with modern GPS telemetry.</p>},
	keywords = {elk cervus-elaphus, eulerian models, fat-tailed dispersal, flight search patterns, foraging movements, habitat selection, home range, home-range models, lagrangian models, levy, memory, reinforced random-walks, state-space models, stochastic movement modelling, utilization distributions, wandering albatrosses},
	isbn = {0962-8436},
	author = {Smouse, P. E. and Focardi, S. and Moorcroft, P. R. and Kie, J. G. and Forester, J. D. and Morales, J. M.}
}
