Fall 2025 theses and dissertations (non-restricted) will be available in ERA on November 17, 2025.

Learning and animal movement

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorMark Lewis
dc.contributor.authorWilliam Fagan
dc.contributor.authorMarie Auger-Methe
dc.contributor.authorJacqueline Frair
dc.contributor.authorJohn Fryxell
dc.contributor.authorClaudius Gros
dc.contributor.authorEliezer Gurarie
dc.contributor.authorSusan Healy
dc.contributor.authorJerod Merkle
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-01T12:01:01Z
dc.date.available2025-05-01T12:01:01Z
dc.date.issued2020-06-20
dc.descriptionIntegrating diverse concepts from animal behavior, movement ecology, and machine learning, we develop an overview of the ecology of learning and animal movement. Learning-based movement is clearly relevant to ecological problems, but the subject is rooted firmly in psychology, including a distinct terminology. We contrast this psychological origin of learning with the taskoriented perspective on learning that has emerged from the field of artificial intelligence. We review conceptual frameworks that characterize the role of learning in movement, discuss emerging trends, and summarize recent developments in the analysis of movement data. We also discuss the relative advantages of different modeling approaches for exploring the learning-movement interface, including techniques gleaned from the psychological and machine learning fields. We explore in depth how individual and social modalities of learning can matter to the ecology of animal movement, and highlight how diverse kinds of field studies, ranging from translocation efforts to manipulative experiments, can provide critical insight into the learning process in animal movement.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7939/r3-gxj3-1159
dc.language.isoen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectanimal cognition
dc.subjectdecision-making
dc.subjectmigration
dc.subjectreinforcement statistical learning
dc.subjecttranslocation
dc.titleLearning and animal movement
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 http://purl.org/coar/version/c_b1a7d7d4d402bcce http://purl.org/coar/version/c_71e4c1898caa6e32
ual.jupiterAccesshttp://terms.library.ualberta.ca/public

Files

Original bundle

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Learning and Animal Movement.pdf
Size:
1.28 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download

Collections

Journal Articles (Biological Sciences)