Quantifying Individual Differences In Dispersal Using Net Squared Displacement

TL;DR: This study provides strong quantitative evidence for the dynamics of animal movements in response to changes in environmental conditions along with varying risk from human influence across the landscape.

TL;DR: This review provides for the Geographical Information Sciences (GIS) community an overview of the most common movement metrics and methods of analysis employed by animal ecologists and emphasizes the potential for movement analyses to promote transdisciplinary GIS/wildlife-ecology research.

TL;DR: This study tracked the movements of 16 adult brown bears in a small and isolated population in north- east Turkey to identify inter- individual behavioral variations associated with the use of a garbage dump and examine how these variations influenced ranging patterns, movements behavior and habitat selection.

TL;DR: Logistical difficulties preclude a detailed study of dispersal for many species, however incorporating unrealistic dispersal assumptions in spatial population models may yield inaccurate and costly predictions, and further studies are necessary to explore the importance of incorporating specific condition‐dependent dispersal strategies for evolutionary and population dynamic predictions.

TL;DR: The mathematical theory behind the simple random walk is introduced and how this relates to Brownian motion and diffusive processes in general and a reinforced random walk can be used to model movement where the individual changes its environment.

TL;DR: Recent literature providing strong evidence that individual variation in dispersal has an important impact on both reinforcement and colonization success and therefore must be taken into account when predicting ecological responses to global warming and habitat fragmentation is discussed.

TL;DR: A review of recent advances in modelling home range behaviour focuses particularly on the problem of identifying mechanisms that lead to the emergence of stable home ranges from unbounded movement paths, and discusses the issue of spatiotemporal scale, which is rarely considered in modelling studies.