Linking individual-based and statistical inferential models in movement ecology: A case study with black petrels ( Procellaria parkinsoni )

Individual-based models (IBMs) are increasingly used to explore ecological systems and, in particular, the emergent outcomes of individual-level processes. A major challenge in developing IBMs to investigate the movement ecology of animals is that such models must represent and parameterise unobserved behaviours occurring at multiple hierarchical levels. Approaches based on approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) methods have been used to support...