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Brett T McClintock¹, Michelle E Lander¹

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Area of Science:

Movement Ecology
Wildlife Conservation
Statistical Modeling
Landscape Ecology

Background:

Understanding animal habitat selection is vital for conservation and management.
Existing methods often ignore or improperly handle movement behaviors, leading to biased inferences.
Linking life-history requirements, habitat use, and movement behavior is key to ecological understanding.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a novel single-stage statistical method for inferring behavior-specific habitat selection and utilization distributions.
To provide a flexible and user-friendly tool for analyzing animal tracking data.
To demonstrate the importance of accounting for distinct movement behaviors in ecological studies.

Main Methods:

Development of a habitat-driven Langevin diffusion model for animals with distinct movement behavior states.
Implementation of a single-stage statistical framework for continuous-time inference.
Utilized simulation experiments and case studies with plains zebra and Steller sea lion telemetry data.

Main Results:

The model successfully inferred behavior-specific habitat selection and utilization distributions across various sampling scenarios.
Case studies revealed distinct movement behaviors in plains zebra (encamped vs. exploratory) and Steller sea lions (foraging vs. other).
Foraging movements in sea lions were linked to specific offshore topographical features, enhancing prey concentration.

Conclusions:

The developed model offers a robust, single-stage approach to analyze movement behavior and habitat use from tracking data.
Accounting for distinct behaviors is crucial to avoid misleading ecological inferences and improve conservation strategies.
The model advances ecological understanding by integrating individual movement behaviors with population-level spatial processes.