Ecological Archives M077-009-A2

James D. Forester, Anthony R. Ives, Monica G. Turner, Dean P. Anderson, Daniel Fortin, Hawthorne L. Beyer, Douglas W. Smith, and Mark S. Boyce. 2007. State–space models link elk movement patterns to landscape characteristics in Yellowstone National Park. Ecological Monographs 77:285–299.

Appendix B. A figure showing the influence of daily activity patterns on ln(step length) based on the best model for each elk.

 

   FIG. B1. These plots show the influence of time of day on the five-hour step lengths for each of 16 female elk in Yellowstone National Park. Curves are based on the function: Δln(y) = b1⋅sin(2π⋅t/12) + b2⋅cos(2π⋅t/12). Where Δln(y) is the change in the log(five-hour step length); b1 and b2 are the fitted coefficients for the sine and cosine functions of time of day (t) from each elk's best model.



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