stmove

stmove provides exploratory analyses of animal relocation data and generates standardized reports summarizing trajectories, movement statistics, spatiotemporal summaries, and space-use estimates.

Key Features:

• Data Input and Report Generation: Accepts individual animal relocation data and produces comprehensive reports containing visualizations and summary statistics.
• Best Practice Framework: Implements a standardized set of analyses for terrestrial movement data to enhance comparability across studies.
• Path Visualization: Generates visual representations of animal trajectories to examine movement patterns.
• Primary Statistic Calculation: Computes essential movement statistics that summarize movement characteristics.
• Summary in Space and Time: Produces spatiotemporal summaries describing how animals utilize space over time.
• Space-Use Construction: Constructs areas of frequent use to support space-use and habitat-use analyses.

Scientific Applications:

• Movement Ecology: Provides standardized exploratory outputs for researchers analyzing animal relocation datasets.
• Wildlife Management: Informs analyses used by wildlife managers to interpret movement patterns from tracking data.
• Conservation and Habitat Management: Supports preliminary analyses that contribute to conservation strategy and habitat-management decisions.

Methodology:

Processes relocation data from tagged animals—e.g., African elephants (Loxodonta africana) in southern Africa—and applies the package's analytical functions to produce visualizations, summary statistics, spatiotemporal summaries, and space-use outputs.