Movement and Networks I
Content for Monday, November 13, 2023
Today we’re going to finish up some of the model evaluation and prediction pieces from last week and then take a brief detour into the use of spatial information in networks. To do that, we’ll need to introduce some basic concepts of networks before getting too far down the road of the syntax.
Resources
Landscape connectivity: A graph-theoretic perspective by (Urban and Keitt 2001) introduces the notion of using networks and graphs to understand ecological connectivity.
Connectivity for conservation: a framework to classify network measures by (Rayfield et al. 2011) helps simplify the (often overwhelming nature) of terminology and network metrics.
Graphs and network science: and introduction provides a little simpler, but less spatially informed introduction to the tasks of network analysis.
Objectives
By the end of today you should be able to:
Use cross-validation to evaluate your models
Define a network and it’s key components
Identify major questions that we can address with networks