ON QUANTIFYING INSECT MOVEMENTS

被引：62

作者：

WIENS, JA ^{[1
]}

CRIST, TO ^{[1
]}

MILNE, BT ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] COLORADO STATE UNIV,PROGRAM ECOL STUDIES,FT COLLINS,CO 80523

来源：

ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY | 1993年 / 22卷 / 04期

关键词：

ELEODES SPP; MOVEMENTS; FRACTALS;

D O I：

10.1093/ee/22.4.709

中图分类号：

Q96 [昆虫学];

学科分类号：

摘要：

We elaborate on methods described by Turchin, Odendaal & Rausher for quantifying insect movement pathways. We note the need to scale measurement resolution to the study insects and the questions being asked, and we discuss the use of surveying instrumentation for recording sequential positions of individuals on pathways. We itemize several measures that may be used to characterize movement pathways and illustrate these by comparisons among several Eleodes beetles occurring in shortgrass steppe. The fractal dimension of pathways may provide insights not available from absolute measures of pathway configuration. Finally, we describe a renormalization procedure that may be used to remove sequential interdependence among locations of moving individuals while preserving the basic attributes of the pathway.

引用

页码：709 / 715

页数：7

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