Overview

ame1 project - studying the relation between home range size and activity

Introduction

This document describes the time-schedule in the ame1 project. To learn more about the project, see the project overview page).

Overview of time schedule

There are eight phases in this project (for a more detailed explanation of each - see the information further below):

1. registration
2. 1st round of analysis & reporting
3. round-robin feedback
4. 2nd round of analysis & reporting
5. sharing & discussing results
6. write report as input for workshop
7. workshop to discuss results and work on synthesis paper
8. write synthesis paper

If you participate in this project, you commit yourself to deliver input on time in phases 2, 3, 4 and 8. Furthermore it would be great if you could be at the workshop, which will take place in Europe (step 7). We aim at submitting the synthesis in 2020.

Details of Time schedule

1. registration

After registering, participants will be asked to fill-in a questionnaire to express their prior expectations about the research question(s) (this is a mini questionnaire, which takes just a few minutes). Thereafter they will receive the data.

• Deliverable 1: Overview of prior expectations by participants - might be useful when discussing and/or interpreting the results at the very end.

2. 1st round of analysis & reporting

At December 15 on the latest the participants have to submit their results according to a pre-defined format (format will be available at 15 September).

• Deliverable 2a: A description of the used analytical approaches (reported through a questionnaire) - will be commented on by other research teams during step 3 ‘round-robin feedback’.
• Deliverable 2b: Initial findings, based on the methods using the methods - accessible only to the others (including coordinators) after the 2nd round of analysis is finished.

3. round-robin feedback

The different analytical approaches (results from Deliverable 2a, collated to a single questionnaire) are distributed to all the teams. Each team is asked to provide comments/suggestions on at least 3 summaries.

• Deliverable 3a: Feedback on the analytical approaches by three other teams via questionnaire.
• Deliverable 3b by coordinators: Report for each team with comments/suggestions on their analytical approach.

4. 2nd round of analysis & reporting

Research teams may refine their analytical approach, based on the input from step 3.

• Deliverable 4a: A description of the newly used analytical approaches is uploaded by each research team.
• Deliverable 4b: Definitive findings, based on the revised methods is uploaded by each research team.

5. sharing & discussing results

All results (1 report per participant, containing the results from the 2nd round of analysis) are shared among the teams. All participants are invited to participate in a discussion on the results via email/slack.

• Deliverable 5: Log of the discussion.

6. write report as input for workshop

The coordinators compile a synthesis report with a general summary of the results and discussion.

• Delivarable 6 by coordinators (with input from participants): Project report, bringing toghether, interpreting and summarizing the results of the project.

7. workshop to discuss results and work on synthesis paper

The teams meet at the Eurodeer XII meeting to discuss the results and make a start with the synthesis paper.

• Devliverable 7: Log of the discussions at the meeting and a first outline of the synthesis paper.

8. write synthesis paper

Draft paper is written, revised and finalized, uploaded to preprint archive and submitted to journal for peer review.

• Deliverable 8: Synthesis paper submitted