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Table 1 Examples of movement behaviors which have been shown to feature intra-population individual variation and temporal scales needed in order to quantify the behavior for analysis of between-individual repeatability. We roughly consider temporal resolutions of less than 1 fix per day to be “low”, one to three daily fixes to be medium, and bi-hourly or hourly fixes to be “high”. “Low” temporal resolution of movement data may also be achieved with visual resightings or DNA recaptures of individuals instead of biologging devices

From: A guide for studying among-individual behavioral variation from movement data in the wild

Duration of monitoring

Temporal resolution

Example behavior

References

Long term

(multi-annual, lifelong)

low

• breeding or stopover site selection and fidelity

[126]

 

• migration probability, distance, and site fidelity

[50]

medium - high

• movement and habitat selection in relation to age, memory, learning, behavioral innovation

[127,128,129]

Medium term

(annual, seasonal)

low

• natal dispersal probability and distance

[130, 131]

medium

• foraging site fidelity

[38]

high

• resource selection

[44, 85, 86]

Short term (weeks, days)

low

• home range size

[52]

medium

• daily net squared displacement

[132]

high

• area restricted search behavior

[54, 58, 62]

  

• diel activity

[27]