Getting started with network analysis of animal movements in R

Network analysis is the study of relationships. A bunch of things, at least some of which are connected, makes a graph; when the connections vary in strength, you have a network. In ecology there are two main uses of networks: studying spatial relationships, or social ones. This is a very brief run-through of how I got started looking at spatial networks of bird movements in R. (If you’re more interested in social networks, check out <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.6568" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">this paper from Ferreira et al.</a> on getting started, and <a href="https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/2041-210X.13502?af=R" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">this one by Silk et al.</a> for the CMRnet R package to implement it) <a href="https://joshnightingale.medium.com/getting-started-with-network-analysis-of-animal-movements-in-r-4c7253923259">Read More</a>