Roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) spatio-temporal sequential habitat use: an application of Sequence Alignment Methods

Key results: Roe deer spatio-temporal patterns in habitat use were effectively analysed by means of Sequence Alignment Methods (SAM). Taking into account the sequence of use of environmental types allowed to evidence some important ecological patterns. For example, age may affect predisposition to mi-grate and migration patterns are affected by elevation gradient. Background knowledge in the geography domain such as the awareness of spatial au-tocorrelation was fundamental to infer reliable ecological considerations. This contribution shows how a general concept related to moving objects such as the relevance of spatio-temporal patterns can be applied to a specific domain and repre-sent an advancement in that field