3D and 4D Animal Space Use and Overlap
A special issue of Biology (ISSN 2079-7737). This special issue belongs to the section "Behavioural Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 2456
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Interests: behavioural ecology; ecological modelling; numerical ecology; spatial ecology
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Dear Colleagues,
Animal space use is a fundamental question in behavioral ecology because of its implications for demography, interspecific and intra-specific competition, niche partitioning, and habitat use and selection. Although animal space use has typically been quantified in 2D dimensions, arguably because of the lack of tools adapted to 3D data, the vast majority of animal taxa, and in particular birds, use space in 3D. In addition, space use can vary in time and such variation may have implications for habitat selection and use and predator–prey relationships. However, time has rarely been considered when estimating home range size and overlap, and it has never been incorporated as a fourth dimension.
The editor of this Special Issue welcomes submissions of both original research and synthetic reviews about any type of species, including the following topics:
(1) 3D volumetric home ranges (i.e., x,y,z); (2) 3D probabilistic home ranges (i.e., x,y,z,p); (3) 3D volumetric home range overlap; (4) 3D probabilistic home ranges overlap; (5) 4D volumetric home ranges (i.e., x,y,z,t); (6) 4D probabilistic home ranges (i.e., x,y,z,p,t); (7) new pairwise metrics of 3D and 4D home range overlap; and (8) non-pairwise metrics of 3D and 4D home range overlap.
Dr. Alessandro Ferrarini
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- 3D home range
- 4D home range
- non-pairwise overlap metric
- pairwise overlap metric
- probabilistic home range
- time-dependent home range
- utilization distribution
- volumetric home range
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