“…A promising application is for counter-factual analysis, where landscape covariates can be modified to represent a disturbance, management action, reserve or habitat corridor design, and trajectories can be simulated to understand how animals may respond by changing their movement dynamics, habitat selection or connectivity (Hofmann et al, 2023). Other applications include running near-term trajectories that assess the likelihood of an area being used by an animal in the future, which may be useful to assess colonisation and invasion potential of introduced species (Lustig et al, 2017; Lustig et al, 2019; Patterson et al, 2024), or to plan upcoming management when the locations of animals are currently known. Trajectories from SSFs have already seen useful application for connectivity, and there is potential to identify movement corridors and understand metapopulation dynamics in fragmented environments (Hooker et al, 2021; Whittington et al, 2022; Aiello et al, 2023; Hofmann et al, 2023; Sells et al, 2023), particularly when combined with additional data such as genetics to assess historic connectivity (Lowe & Allendorf, 2010; Dussex et al, 2015).…”