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Table 1 Plausible measures of grazing and travel mobility
From: Livestock mobility in sub-Saharan Africa: A critical review
Grazing mobility | |
 Distance travelled per day | |
 Maximal radius of movement from home base during the day | |
 Time away from home base during the day | |
 Frequency of movement while grazing | |
 Frequency of watering (every x days) determining the orbit distance/duration | |
Travel mobility | |
 Sum of travel movement distance across a year | |
 Frequency of travel movements across the year | |
 Maximal distance between base and travel movement destination | |
 Weighted density of resting points visited during the year | |
 Average distance travelled between adjoining resting points or water points |