Resources

Resources, software and tools

Public tools, methods and infrastructure connected to movement ecology, demography and animal-borne monitoring.

This page collects selected resources that are useful for students, collaborators and applied partners. It distinguishes group software and infrastructure from external tools that are widely used in movement ecology and ecological modelling.

Software and methods

Software and methods

FLightR

Solar geolocation path reconstruction

An R package for reconstructing animal movement paths from light-level geolocation data. Listed here as group software connected to earlier methodological work.

R packagegeolocationmovement ecology

Software and methods

Behaviour discovery from animal-borne motion time series

Methods for accelerometer and sensor data

A developing methodological direction for identifying behavioural structure from animal-borne motion data. Listed as a method rather than public software until a maintained public repository is available.

methodaccelerometrybehavioural statesmachine learning

Infrastructure and dashboards

Infrastructure and dashboards

UvA-BiTS

Tracking-data infrastructure

University of Amsterdam infrastructure for collecting, storing and working with high-resolution animal tracking and sensor data.

trackinginfrastructurebiologging

Infrastructure and dashboards

Waakvogels dashboard

Animal-borne monitoring outputs

Dashboard infrastructure connected to the Waakvogels programme, supporting exploration of animal-borne data and sentinel-indicator outputs for ecological monitoring.

dashboardanimal-borne monitoringsentinel indicators

External tools and platforms

External tools and platforms

Movebank

Animal tracking data platform

An international platform for animal tracking data. Included as an external tool and data infrastructure used widely in movement ecology.

external platformtracking datadata sharing

External tools and platforms

WATLAS

High-throughput regional tracking

A regional tracking system for high-throughput movement ecology. Included as an external platform relevant to fine-scale movement studies.

external platformtrackingmovement ecology

External tools and platforms

momentuHMM

Hidden Markov models for animal movement

An R package for fitting hidden Markov models to animal movement data. Included as an external method package, not a group product.

external softwareR packagehidden Markov models

External tools and platforms

crawl

Continuous-time movement modelling

An R package for continuous-time correlated random walk models and movement-path reconstruction. Included as an external method package.

external softwareR packagemovement models

External tools and platforms

Global Flyway Network

Interactive flyway-scale tracking platform

A collaborative platform for exploring movements of tracked migratory birds, especially shorebirds. Included here as an external resource developed by close collaborators and closely connected to flyway ecology, tracking and demographic research.

external platformflyway ecologyshorebirdstracking datacollaboration