Workshop: Analysis of Animal Movement Data in R

Tentative schedule

• When: 24th to 28th of January 2022
• Where: online

Program

Day 1:

• Exploratory data analysis for movement data (J);
• Quantifying space use of animals with home ranges (B)

Day 2:

• Continuous time movement models (CRAWL) (B)
• Identifying different behavioral states in movement data (J)

Day 3:

• Introduction to habitat selection (RSF) (B)
• Integrated step selection functions (iSSF) 1 (J)

Day 4:

• Simulations from fitted iSSF (J)
• Integrated step selection functions 2 (B)

Day 5:

• Strategies to model multiple animals (J)
• Validation of models for habitat selection (B)
• Time for questions for your own data.

Structure

We will try to roughly use the following building blocks for each module (two moduels per day):

1. Lecture that introduces the topic: ~ 40 min
2. R walkthrough: ~ 40 min
3. Break: ~ 10 min
4. Exercise: ~ 40 min
5. Break: ~ 10 min
6. Discussion of exercises and presentation of sample solution: ~ 25 min

Between the modules we have a 30 min break (4:45 pm to 5:15 pm Berlin time)