Data and R code for What you see is where you go: visibility influences movement decisions of a forest bird navigating a 3D structured matrix University of Antwerp
Job Aben, Johannes Signer, Janne Heiskanen, Petri Pelllikka, Justing Travis
Animal spatial behaviour is often presumed to reflect responses to visual cues. However, inference of behaviour in relation to the environment is challenged by the lack of objective methods to identify the information that effectively is available to an animal from a given location. In general, animals are assumed to have unconstrained information on the environment within a detection circle of a certain radius (the perceptual range; PR). However, visual cues are only available up to the first physical obstruction within an animal’s PR, making information availability a function of an ...