Movement Ecology of Tremarctos ornatus in the Ecuadorian Andes

This project was entirely developed in R and no new software was produced. Core packages to this work include ctmm for continuous-time movement modeling, momentuHMM for movement behavior analysis using Hidden Markov Models, and Diel.Niche to evaluate diel phenotypes under bayesian frameworks.

Data and Code Availability

GPS and VHF fixes used in this study will be freely available upon publication at Movebank with license CC BY-NC, under the name "Rethinking the Movement Ecology of Andean Bears: Temperature-Driven Cath- emerality and Seasonal Space-Use Cycle" (Movebank ID: 1403649299).

Code will be available upon publication.

Citation

This work can currently be found as a preprint:

Francisco X. Castellanos, David Jackson, Stefano Mezzini, Jorge Brito, and Armando Castellanos. (2026). Rethinking the movement ecology of Andean bears: temperature-driven cathemerality and seasonal space-use cycles. bioRxiv 2026.05.11.720697