Figure 3.

Mechanisms driving body‐size‐dependent estimation bias: (a) positive allometry of home‐range areas, (b) correlation between home‐range area and range‐crossing time (τ_p), (c) negative correlation between τ_p and effective sample size (N _area) governed by duration of observation period (T) and τ_p such that N _area $\approx$ T/τ_p, and (d) resulting negative allometry of N _area (axes, log scaled; lines, phylogenetically controlled fitted regression models). From (a) to (d), 1 axis is preserved from the previous panel to demonstrate the inherent link between each of these relationships (arrows, visual aid of link; top‐left arrow, end of the chain).