Defining stops in search pathways.

The alternation of stationary periods and periods of movement may be an important feature of an animal's search tactic. Unambiguously differentiating stops and moves may be difficult, especially from highly resolved digitized pathways, but their identification may be essential for understanding an animal's searching behavior. In this paper, we describe a method for defining stops in search pathways. A computer program that identifies the stop-and-go movement patterns from digitized pathway data is available upon request from the authors.