How range residency and long-range perception change encounter rates

DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2020.110267zbMATH Open1455.92152arXiv1907.05902OpenAlexW3015938454WikidataQ91808062 ScholiaQ91808062MaRDI QIDQ827787FDOQ827787

Authors: Ricardo Martinez-Garcia, C. H. Fleming, Ralf Seppelt, William F. Fagan, Justin M. Calabrese 

Publication date: 13 January 2021

Published in: Journal of Theoretical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Encounter rates link movement strategies to intra- and inter-specific interactions, and therefore translate individual movement behavior into higher-level ecological processes. Indeed, a large body of interacting population theory rests on the law of mass action, which can be derived from assumptions of Brownian motion in an enclosed container with exclusively local perception. These assumptions imply completely uniform space use, individual home ranges equivalent to the population range, and encounter dependent on movement paths actually crossing. Mounting empirical evidence, however, suggests that animals use space non-uniformly, occupy home ranges substantially smaller than the population range, and are often capable of nonlocal perception. Here, we explore how these empirically supported behaviors change pairwise encounter rates. Specifically, we derive novel analytical expressions for encounter rates under Ornstein-Uhlenbeck motion, which features non-uniform space use and allows individual home ranges to differ from the population range. We compare OU-based encounter predictions to those of Reflected Brownian Motion, from which the law of mass action can be derived. For both models, we further explore how the interplay between the scale of perception and home range size affects encounter rates. We find that neglecting realistic movement and perceptual behaviors can systematically bias encounter rate predictions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.05902

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zbMATH Keywords

home rangesecological theoryencounter ratesmovement ecology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ecology (92D40)

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