Mevin B. Hooten

Feb 10, 2024 | pubs.usgs.gov | Joseph Eisaguirre |Perry Williams |Mevin B. Hooten

The process known as ecological diffusion emerges from a first principles view of animal movement, but ecological diffusion and other partial differential equation models can be difficult to fit to data. Step-selection functions (SSFs), on the other hand, have emerged as powerful practical tools for ecologists studying the movement and habitat selection of animals.