MODELAMENTO DE ROTAS DE VISITAÇÃO

Abstract

The increasing concern with habitat fragmentation and reduction has shown the need to integrate studies of spatial structure with mechanisms of population dispersal. A series of models are currently being developed to analise and describe animal movement and its ecological conse­quences. This paper focuses on the study of insect dispersal by means of individual models repre­sented by the analysis of movement tracks, and reviews the applications of this technique in several research lines. The usefulness and limitations of two well-known models are explained in detail, and compared with alternative models.