I am working with hummingbird location points obtained through radiotelemetry, and want to figure out their patterns of space use and how they are affected by forest fragmentation.
I need to find ways of assessing which areas are preferred by the birds as well as the movement patterns they follow.
The points were recorded within a short time period, so they are not independent. Autocorrelation functions will help me evaluate the degree of this dependence in space and time. Rather than a problem, the autocorrelated nature of my data presents an opportunity to study activity patterns of the birds.
