Skip to main content
Fig. 3 | Ecological Processes

Fig. 3

From: A hierarchical path-segmentation movement ecology framework

Fig. 3

The segment structure of movement paths at different scales according to the scheme proposed in Fig. 1. A A multi-season lifetime track (LiT) W (Eq. 1) can be segmented into different types of lifetime movement phases (LiMPs), each of which can then be segmented into diel activity routines (DARs) and again segmented into canonical activity modes (CAMs). Each CAM is constructed from different proportions of metaFuMEs (aggregates of correlated fundamental movement elements), where each metaFuME is derived from a bivariate step-length/turning-angle distribution derived from time series with specific first-order correlative statistics. Short-duration CAMs (e.g., CAM 3) can easily be missed and averaged into longer duration CAMs (e.g., CAMs 1 and 2), if DAR segmentation analyses are not undertaken at a sufficiently fine scale. B An illustrative example of a simple two-CAM return-to-home-with-a-water-stop DAR where the two types of metaFuMEs that generate the traveling CAM are shown under magnification

Back to article page