Linking movement and population dynamics

MORALES, JUAN M.

Dresden

Workshop; Statistical Physics and Anomalous Dynamics of Foraging: Second Focus Week Meeting; 2015

Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

I will present ongoing work aimed at relating movement and population dynamics. The main assumption is that animals allocate their time to different activities depending on both internal state and environmental conditions. These activities are in turn characterised by different movement and space use patterns which then feed back into the individual's condition. Individual condition affects survival and reproductive rates thus linking behaviour, movement and space use to population dynamics.