Studies of animal spatial distributions typically use prior knowledge of animal habitat requirements and behavioral ecology to deduce the most likely explanations of observed habitat use. Animal-borne accelerometers can be used to distinguish behaviors which allows us to incorporate in situ behavior into our understanding of spatial distributions. Past research has focused on using supervised machine-learning, which requires a priori specification of behavior to identify signals whereas unsupervised approaches allow the model to identify as many signal types as permitted by the data. The following framework couples direct observation to behavioral clusters identified from unsupervised machine learning on a large accelerometry dataset. A behavioral profile was constructed to describe the proportion of behaviors observed per cluster and the framework was applied to an acceleration dataset collected from wild pigs (Sus scrofa). Although, most clusters represented combinations of behaviors, a leave-p-out validation procedure indicated this classification system accurately predicted new data.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MSSTATE/oai:scholarsjunction.msstate.edu:td-1620 |
| Date | 03 May 2019 |
| Creators | Dentinger, Jane Elizabeth |
| Publisher | Scholars Junction |
| Source Sets | Mississippi State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Theses and Dissertations |
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