Abstract We present spatsoc , an r package for conducting social network analysis with animal telemetry data. Animal is a method measuring relationships between individuals to describe structure. Proximity‐based networks are generated from data by grouping relocations temporally and spatially, using thresholds that informed the characteristics of species study system. fills gap in packages providing flexible functions, explicitly data, generate edge lists gambit‐of‐the‐group perform...

Movement provides a link between individual behavioral ecology and the spatial temporal variation in an individual's landscape. Individual movement traits is important axis of animal personality, particularly context foraging ecology. We tested whether caribou (Rangifer tarandus) displayed plasticity space-use behavior across gradient resource aggregation. quantified first-passage time range-use ratio as proxies for movement-related examined how these varied at level gradient. Our results...

Abstract Animals use a variety of proximate cues to assess habitat quality when resources vary spatiotemporally. Two nonmutually exclusive strategies involve either direct assessment landscape features or observation social from conspecifics as form information transfer about forage resources. The conspecific attraction hypothesis proposes that individual space is dependent on the distribution rather than location resource patches, whereas dispersion and association are driven by abundance...

Abstract How social development in early‐life affects fitness remains poorly understood. Though there is growing evidence that relationships can affect fitness, little research has investigated how positions develop or whether are particularly important periods for position an animal's life history. In long‐lived species particular, understanding the lasting consequences of environments requires detailed, long‐term datasets. Here we used a 25‐year dataset to test held during early predicted...

Abstract Anthropogenic linear features often alter wildlife behaviour and movement. Landscape features, such as habitat, can have important mediating effects on response to disturbance yet are rarely explicitly considered in how habitat interact. We tested the movement space‐use responses of GPS‐collared grey wolves with respect adjacent variation. simultaneously modelled wolf selection within a conditional logistic regression framework (integrated Step Selection Analysis). alters these...

Scale remains a foundational concept in ecology. Spatial scale, for instance, has become central consideration the way we understand landscape ecology and animal space use. Meanwhile, scale-dependent social processes can range from fine-scale interactions to co-occurrence overlapping home ranges. Furthermore, sociality vary within across seasons. Multilayer networks promise explicit integration of social, spatial, temporal contexts. Given complex interplay use heterogeneous landscapes, there...

Site fidelity—the tendency to reuse familiar spaces—is expected improve fitness. Familiarity with the local environment is particularly crucial when resource demands or predation risk are high. Consequently, site fidelity often peaks during reproduction energetic costs high and offspring vulnerable. For many species, they experience not solely a function of geography but also social environment. Social fidelity, selection for environments, could constitute an independent parallel strategy...

For prey, movement synchrony represents a potent antipredator strategy. Prey, however, must balance the costs and benefits of using conspecifics to mediate risk. Thus, emergent patterns risk-driven sociality depend on variation in space predators prey themselves. We applied concept predator–prey habitat domain, which animals acquire food resources, test conditions under individuals synchronize their movements relative predator domains. tested response domains two populations ungulates that...

The interplay of predator encounters and antipredator responses is an integral part understanding predator–prey interactions spatial co-occurrence avoidance can elucidate these interactions. We conducted hard-part dietary analysis coyotes (Canis latrans Say, 1823) space use woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus (Gmelin, 1788)) to test two competing hypotheses about coyote dynamics using resource selection functions. high encounter hypothesis predicts that would maximize with via co-occurrence,...

Summary We present spatsoc : an R package for conducting social network analysis with animal telemetry data. Animal is a method measuring relationships between individuals to describe structure. Using data requires functions generate proximity-based networks that have flexible temporal and spatial grouping. Data can be complex relocation frequency vary so the ability provide specific thresholds based on characteristics of species system required. fills gap in packages by providing functions,...

Abstract Social groups exist because individuals within the group accrue a net benefit from sharing space. The profitability of sociality, however, varies with ecological context. As context varies, tension emerges among costs and benefits social grouping. Fission-fusion societies are fluid in their dynamics across spatial temporal contexts, permitting insights into how affects whether animals choose to join or depart group. We tested four non-mutually exclusive hypotheses driving variation...

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Abstract The Anthropocene marks great changes to environments and the animals that inhabit them. Changes, such as disturbance, can affect manner in which interact with their environments, moving selecting habitats. To test how might respond changing disturbance regimes, we employ an experimental approach movement ecology. We used integrated step selection analysis (iSSA) behavioural responses of individually-marked grove snails ( Cepaea nemoralis ) exposed a gradient physical habitat....

Abstract Environmental and climatic variation drive animal migration. Animals must adjust their behavioral strategies, for example, habitat selection, to match best in resources whose value likely varies with conditions such as weather. For climate change makes processes snowmelt the emergence of vegetation less predictable at scale months or weeks. Furthermore, meteorological unpredictable—or dynamic—at days hours. The profitability selecting any particular resource may vary according local...

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spatsoc is an R package written by Alec Robitaille, Quinn Webber and Eric Vander Wal of the Wildlife Evolutionary Ecology Lab (WEEL) at Memorial University Newfoundland. It lab’s first was recently accepted through rOpenSci onboarding process with a big thanks to reviewers Priscilla Minotti Filipe Teixeira, editor Lincoln Mullen.

From the perspective of prey, movement synchrony can represent either a potent anti-predator strategy or dangerous liability. Prey must balance costs and benefits using conspecifics to mediate risk emergent patterns risk-driven sociality depends on spatial variation trait composition system. Our literature review outlined prevailing, but not universal, trend animals as an antipredator strategy. Empirically, we then used measure social response two ungulates in predator prey habitat domains....