Short course by AniMove alumnis
Two of our former AniMove participants, Andrew Purdon and Tegan Carpenter-King, offer together with colleagues a short course on R and its usage in animal movement and spatial data analysis in Botswana. They are covering a wider range ot topics than AniMove but great...
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AniMove 2019 at Yale, USA
finally we can announce officially the venue of our next AniMove as well as the date: AniMove summer school 2019 June 3rd – June 14th, 2019 Max Planck – Yale Center for Biodiversity Movement and Global Change New Haven, Connecticut, USA applications can be submitted...
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article: Habitat suitability does not capture the essence of animal-defined corridors
some of our lecturers just published this article on habitat suitability and its unsuitability for animal defined corridor mapping. From the abstract: "Increases in landscape connectivity can improve a species’ ability to cope with habitat fragmentation and...
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specialized ctmm AniMove at SCBI
The AniMove “statistics for animal tracking data” at Smithsonian is a 5 day professional training course, that targets students, researchers and conservation practitioners that have collected animal relocation data and want to learn how to analyze these...
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AniMove 2018 group picture
Our great group of AniMove 2018 attendees and lecturers at Max-Planck-Institute of Ornithology, close to Lake Konstanz, Germany. pictures taken by Anna-Lena Hendel and Kamran Safi
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AniMove 2018 keynotes and lecturers
During AniMove 2018 at the Max-Planck Institute in Möggingen, Germany, we had very inspiring keynotes so far by Dan Rubenstein, Meg Crofoot or Iain Couzin. During the day the AniMove attendees learned a variety of state-of-the-art animal...
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AniMove 2018 time table, icebreaker and lectures
AniMove 2018 at MPI for Ornithology started with perfect weather and a great keynote by Martin Wikelski, director of the MPI-O. Our science speed dating was fun again - talking to every participant for 3 minutes and getting a first idea of her/his research...
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Venue for AniMove 2018 being prepared
The MPI (Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology) in Möggingen, close to Lake Konstanz, the venue for our next AniMove science schools is currently prepared to host 20 participants and AniMove lecturers. Personalized AniMove cups, pens, sticker and college...
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animal movement R cheatsheet updated
we updated the AniMove cheatsheet for animal movement R functions we use within the summer school. Download the latest version here: https://github.com/wegmann/RSdocs/blob/master/Cheatsheet/AniMove_refcard.pdf
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AniMove 2018 evening keynotes
the keynotes for the upcoming AniMove are set. The following colleagues will hold a keynote at our summer school:
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Recurse package now supports calculating revisits in polygons
The recurse package has a new feature: the ability to examine revisits or residence time in convex polygons, rather than simply specifying a radius. This function came about due to conversations with Lacey Hughey, who I met at an AniMove course. She needed to...
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recurse package published in Ecography
The recurse R package by Chloe Bracis, one of our core members, got published in Ecography. From the abstract: "Animals regularly return to locations such as foraging patches, nests, dens, watering holes, or movement corridors, and these revisited locations are often...
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