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Table 2 The means and standard deviations of the four distance measures (all in kilometers) within the 7 categories of DARs (also see Fig. 3 and Additional file 1: Fig. B.4 in Appendix B)

From: Categorizing the geometry of animal diel movement patterns with examples from high-resolution barn owl tracking

DAR ID (color, %)

Net displ. (km)

Max. displ. (km)

Max. diam. (km)

Max. width (km)

Spatial description

1 (yellow, 27%)

0.11 ± 0.16

0.66 ± 0.35

0.79 ± 0.38

0.32 ± 0.15

Closed, very small local

2 (dark yellow, 28%)

0.10 ± 0.13

1.5 ± 0.5

1.7 ± 0.5

0.71 ± 0.23

Closed, local excursions

3 (light blue, 16%)

0.41 ± 0.58

2.1 ± 0.6

2.4 ± 0.6

1.2 ± 0.4

Partially open, small extensive excursions

4 (orange, 8%)

0.07 ± 0.07

3.4 ± 0.5

3.6 ± 0.5

0.70 ± 0.26

Closed, transverse excursions

5 (light red, 10%)

0.09 ± 0.14

3.0 ± 0.6

3.5 ± 0.6

1.9 ± 0.5

Closed, medium extensive excursions

6 (dark red, 8%)

0.13 ± 0.33

5.6 ± 1.7

6.1 ± 1.9

2.0 ± 1.3

Closed, large excursions

7 (blue, 3%)

4.1 ± 2.1

4.4 ± 2.2

4.8 ± 2.5

1.7 ± 1.2

Wide open, large extensive excursions