Workshop: Analysis of Animal Movement Data in R

Tentative schedule

• When: 22nd to 26th of January 2024
• Where: online with Zoom

Program

Day 1:

• Exploratory data analysis for movement data (J)
• Data cleaning for telemetry data (B)

Day 2:

• Quantifying space use of animals with home ranges (B)
• Working with multiple animals/instances (J)

Day 3:

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

Day 4:

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

Day 5:

• Extensions of iSSFs (J)
• Validation of models for habitat selection (B)

Structure

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

1. Discussion of exercises (introduction round on the first day)
2. Lecture ~ 45 min
3. R walkthrough ~ 45 min
4. Introduction of exercises ~ 5 min
5. Break ~ 20 min
6. Lecture ~ 45 min
7. R walkthrough ~ 45 min
8. Introduction of exercise ~ 5 min

We will deliver content from 2pm to 6pm Berlin time. In addition, we will monitor the Slack channel from 9am to 10pm for questions on the exercises.