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Boerger, L.; Matthiopoulos, J.; Holdo, R.M.; Morales, J.M.; Couzin, I.; McCauley, E.
Migration quantified: constructing models and linking them with data
2011 Book Chapter
Questions about the motivation and orientation capabilities of migratory animals have fascinated natural historians since Aristotle and Pliny the Elder. More recently, faced with the challenges of conserving migratory species, other problems have gained in importance, such as mapping migratory routes understanding the role of individual and environmental drivers of migration patterns, or estimating the size of trans-continental migratory populations. Our overall aim in this chapter is to discuss how models, combined with modern data sources and statistical methods, can be used to test different hypotheses about the causes of migration. In Sections 8.2-8.4 we structure our presentation around these three essential components (models, data, and inference) and, in Section 8.5 , we illustrate their linkages by means of several case studies.
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