* Freshwater Fisheries Research Division, National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Fisheries Research Agency, Ueda, Japan Laboratory of Animal Sociology, Department of Biology and Geosciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan Center for Marine Environmental Studies, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan § Laboratory of Animal Ecology, Graduate School of Scie...

New Zealand Journal of Ecology (1999) 23(2): 175-182 ©New Zealand Ecological Society E.C. MURPHY, L. ROBBINS, J.B. Y UNG and J.E. DOWDING 1Science and Research Unit, Department of Conservation, Private Bag 4715, Christchurch, New Zealand. 2Department of Animal Ecology, Massey University, P.O. Box 84, Palmerston North, New Zealand. 3Department of Entomology and Animal Ecology, Lincoln University...

Habitat characterisation is a pivotal step of any animal ecology study. The choice of variables used to describe habitats is crucial and need to be relevant to the ecology and behaviour of the species, in order to reflect biologically meaningful distribution patterns. In many species, acoustic communication is critical to individuals' interactions, and it is expected that ambient acoustic condi...

A long historical tradition exists among mathematicians, biologists and theoretical ecologists on the topic of quantifying, up-scaling and modelling the statistical properties of animal movement. Nevertheless, new paradigms and technical challenges have recently pervaded the field, attracting renewed interest, as evidenced by the large body of literature on the topic, and by the recent series o...