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On the trail of
wild animals
addressing movement ecology & study design questions
> Hi there, I'm —

Inês Silva

> Postdoctoral researcher at CASUS · HZDR

I study animal movement to understand the impacts of linear infrastructure, and develop open, reproducible R tools that help researchers design, evaluate, and optimize tracking studies before heading into the field.

free & open-source!
⌥ GitHub ❋ Scholar ◍ Bluesky
My journey so far!
recent research / selected repositories
> movedesign

An interactive Shiny app and R package for designing animal tracking studies, helping determine how frequently and for how long animals should be tracked to meet study objectives.

✦ live & maintained
> studydesign_ms

Extending the workflow in movedesign to population-level inferences: how many animals do you need to track to obtain robust estimates, capture individual variation, and answer ecological questions with confidence?

✓ published
> AKDE_minireview

A hands-on guide to autocorrelation-informed home range estimation using the ctmm package, exploring the concepts, methods, and workflows for modern movement ecology datasets.

✓ published
recent notes / talks & posts
2025 · Aug Optimizing sample sizes for population-level inferences in animal tracking projects talk 2025 · Jun How to estimate home ranges using R tutorial
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