ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on several specific inferential methods that can provide valuable ecological insights about animal movement and behavior from telemetry data. It considers spatial redistribution from three different perspectives i.e. point processes, discrete-time processes, and continuous-time processes and highlights the relevant literature associated with each. The book shows how to scale up from Lagrangian to Eulerian models for movement. It describes basic methods for estimating home ranges and core areas, and discusses methods for modeling interactions among individuals. The book also shows how to use discrete-time movement models to cluster animal paths into different behavioral types, which can help identify food acquisition modes based on telemetry data. It demonstrates how to account for food-related aspects of movement in the continuous-time setting.
