Dr. Christen Fleming (UCF Department of Biology) will present “Spatial Distributions for Animal Movement Processes“ at this week's Mathematical Biology Seminar.
Abstract: Spatial distributions represent a relative frequency at a specified location in two dimensions. Here, I cover a number of biologically relevant spatial distributions, and related concepts, that derive from movement processes—including home ranges, territories, and corridors. I pay special attention to the frequent conflation between prediction and estimation and the commonly misapplied biological concepts of “space use” and “utilization”; and I delineate stronger linkages between important biological concepts and well-defined mathematical objects.
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