BECAT Workshop Tom Meyer Department of Natural Resources and the Environment 16 May 2013.

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BECAT Workshop Tom Meyer Department of Natural Resources and the Environment 16 May 2013

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Animal Movement Modeling

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GPS Tracking Collars on

Mountain lions Wolves Grizzly bears Elk Deer

Reliable horizontal coordinates Resource utilization Home range modeling

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One collar, real data

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Our newest team member

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Moving-Resting Process NSF Proposal (Mathematical Biology)

Utility-Distribution Modeling Using New Moving/Resting Processes

Pozdynakov, V.; Meyer, T.; Wang, Y.; Yan, J (in review) On Modeling Animal Movements Using Brownian Motion with Measurement Error. Ecology

Yan et al. (in review) A Moving-Resting Process with an Embedded Brownian Motion for Animal Movements. Population Ecology.

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The discrete UD

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The discrete UD Honors boundaries Is temporally explicit Gives rise to home range as an

emergent concept Immediately useful for resource

utilization studies Has computational complexity of 7n so

heuristics, data structures, algorithms, and lots of cycles are needed

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Tom Meyer NRE [email protected] 6-0145