Fig. 1

A schematic of the multi-scale movement syndromes (MSMS) framework and how it relates to existing Resource Selection Functions. The syndromes describe the pattern of animal movement while the RSF’s quantify the process as an animal interacts with the surrounding environment (i.e. habitat preferences). The MSMS expands the life-history-level syndromes described by Abrahms et al. [1] to explicitly incorporate the natural hierarchy that emerges as steps form into daily paths, which accumulate into longer-term phases and, eventually, lifetime tracks. This framework allows us to not only describe variation in patterns of animal space-use, but also to investigate at what scale such differences emerge