Book contents
- Spatial Analysis in Field Primatology
- Spatial Analysis in Field Primatology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Why Place Matters, and its Use in Primate Behavioral and Ecological Research
- Part I GPS for Primatologists
- Part II GIS Analysis in Fine-Scale Space
- Introduction
- 7 Home Range Analysis
- 8 Quantifying Resource Dispersion in Free-Ranging Bearded Sakis in Guyana
- 9 Interpreting Small-Scale Patterns of Ranging by Primates
- 10 Determining the Presence of Habitual Travel Route Networks in Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus morio) in Kutai National Park, Borneo
- 11 Finding Fruit in a Tropical Rainforest
- 12 Random Walk Analyses in Primates
- 13 The Use of Small-Scale Spatial Analysis to Evaluate Primate Behavior and Welfare in Captive Settings
- 14 The Promise of Spatially Explicit Agent-Based Models for Primatology Research
- Part III GIS Analysis in Broad-Scale Space
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
14 - The Promise of Spatially Explicit Agent-Based Models for Primatology Research
from Part II - GIS Analysis in Fine-Scale Space
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 January 2021
- Spatial Analysis in Field Primatology
- Spatial Analysis in Field Primatology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Why Place Matters, and its Use in Primate Behavioral and Ecological Research
- Part I GPS for Primatologists
- Part II GIS Analysis in Fine-Scale Space
- Introduction
- 7 Home Range Analysis
- 8 Quantifying Resource Dispersion in Free-Ranging Bearded Sakis in Guyana
- 9 Interpreting Small-Scale Patterns of Ranging by Primates
- 10 Determining the Presence of Habitual Travel Route Networks in Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus morio) in Kutai National Park, Borneo
- 11 Finding Fruit in a Tropical Rainforest
- 12 Random Walk Analyses in Primates
- 13 The Use of Small-Scale Spatial Analysis to Evaluate Primate Behavior and Welfare in Captive Settings
- 14 The Promise of Spatially Explicit Agent-Based Models for Primatology Research
- Part III GIS Analysis in Broad-Scale Space
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
Summary
It is a rare moment when one is given the chance to proselytize for a methodological approach, and I am grateful for this opportunity to advocate for a particular way of studying natural phenomena that affords researchers almost unlimited creativity to design, explore, and generate predictions about a system. Almost 25 years ago, as a first-year graduate student, I read a paper that wormed its way into my head and has remained influential to this day. That paper – by Irenaeus te Boekhorst and Paulien Hogeweg, published in 1994 in the journal Behavior – was radical because it offered a countervailing hypothesis to the standard socioecological model proposed to explain the flexible association and subgrouping patterns of chimpanzees. The “standard” model posited that the benefits of cooperation among male kin in defending access to females and territory were key in explaining why male chimpanzees were commonly found in parties with other males, while female chimpanzees were more often solitary because of the costs of feeding competition.
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- Spatial Analysis in Field PrimatologyApplying GIS at Varying Scales, pp. 280 - 306Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021