Document of bibliographic reference 366401

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Bibliographic resource

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Journal article

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AS

Title

The applicability of human mobility scaling laws on animals - A Herring Gull case study

Abstract

With the development of sensors, recording and availability of high-resolution movement data from animals and humans, two disciplines have rapidly developed: human mobility and movement ecology. Addressing methodological gaps between these two mobility fields could improve the understanding of movement processes and has been defined as the Integrated Science of Movement. We apply well-known human mobility metrics and data processing methods to Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking data of European Herring Gulls (Larus argentatus) to test the usefulness of these methods for explaining animal mobility behavior. We use stop detection, spatial aggregation, and for the first time on animal movement data, two approaches to temporal aggregation (Next Time-Bin and Next Place). We also calculate from this data a set of movement statistics (visitation frequency, distinct locations over time, and radius of gyration). Furthermore, we analyze and compare the gull and human data from the perspective of scaling laws commonly used for human mobility. The results confirm those of previous studies and indicate differences in movement parameters between the breeding season and other parts of the year. This paper also shows that methods used in human mobility analysis have the potential to improve our understanding of animal behavior.

WebOfScience code

https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:001043323500002

Bibliographic citation

Los, M.; Smolak, K.; Mitrus, C.; Rohm, W.; Van de Weghe, N.; Sila-Nowicka, K. (2023). The applicability of human mobility scaling laws on animals - A Herring Gull case study. PLoS One 18(8): e0286239. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0286239

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Marine

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true

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open access

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true