C. H. Fleming

Intraspecific encounters can induce home-range shifts

This study investigates whether close intraspecific encounters lead to long-term spatial shifts in animal home ranges using movement data from coyotes and grizzly bears.

movedesign: Shiny R app to evaluate sampling design for animal tracking movement studies

movedesign evaluates sampling design for animal tracking studies to assess precision in estimating home range, speed, and distance traveled.

The search behavior of terrestrial mammals

This study analyzes GPS data from 1,396 terrestrial mammals across 62 species to show how predator-prey dynamics influence movement strategies and resource search efficiency.

Clarifying space use concepts in ecology: range vs. occurrence distributions

This paper distinguishes between range and occurrence distributions in ecology, showing that conflating them can lead to incorrect ecological inferences and conservation practices.

Mitigating pseudoreplication and bias in resource selection functions with autocorrelation-informed weighting

This paper introduces a method to improve resource selection functions by weighting animal locations based on autocorrelation, reducing bias and improving confidence intervals in ecological studies.

Movement ecology of vulnerable lowland tapirs across a gradient of human disturbance

This study examines lowland tapir movement across different human disturbance levels and finds no significant effect of disturbance on their movement behavior or home range size.

Population-level inference for home-range areas

This paper introduces a framework for population-level home-range analysis that accounts for temporal autocorrelation and uncertainty, applied to multiple species to quantify differences in movement patterns.

A semi-variance approach to visualising phylogenetic autocorrelation

This paper introduces variogram methods to visualize phylogenetic autocorrelation and demonstrates their utility in three empirical examples, showing how they can inform model selection.

Estimating encounter location distributions from animal tracking data

This paper introduces a new theoretical framework to estimate encounter location probabilities from animal tracking data and demonstrates its application using GPS data from capuchins and lizards.

A comprehensive framework for handling location error in animal tracking data

This paper introduces a framework for handling location error in animal tracking data, showing that error-model selection improves analysis accuracy across various tracking devices and species.

ctmmweb: A graphical user interface for autocorrelation-informed home range estimation

The paper introduces ctmmweb, a graphical interface for autocorrelation-informed home range estimation, demonstrating its use on jaguar tracking data.

The challenges of estimating the distribution of flight heights from telemetry or altimetry data

This paper examines errors in flight height data from telemetry and altimetry, showing how improper error handling distorts ecological analyses and recommends state-space models for accurate estimation.

How range residency and long-range perception change encounter rates

The paper derives analytical expressions for encounter rates under Ornstein-Uhlenbeck motion and compares them to Reflected Brownian Motion, showing that neglecting realistic movement and perceptual behaviors can bias encounter rate predictions.