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Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:27
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Recent trends in movement ecology of animals and human mobility
Movement is fundamental to life, shaping population dynamics, biodiversity patterns, and ecosystem structure. In 2008, the movement ecology framework (MEF Nathan et al. in PNAS 105(49):19052–19059, 2008) intro...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:26 -
Intrapopulation differences in polar bear movement and step selection patterns
The spatial ecology of individuals often varies within a population or species. Identifying how individuals in different classes interact with their environment can lead to a better understanding of population...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:25 -
Correction: Home sweet home: spatiotemporal distribution and site fidelity of the reef manta ray (Mobula alfredi) in Dungonab Bay, Sudan
Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:24 -
Machine learned daily life history classification using low frequency tracking data and automated modelling pipelines: application to North American waterfowl
Identifying animal behaviors, life history states, and movement patterns is a prerequisite for many animal behavior analyses and effective management of wildlife and habitats. Most approaches classify short-te...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:23 -
Home sweet home: spatiotemporal distribution and site fidelity of the reef manta ray (Mobula alfredi) in Dungonab Bay, Sudan
Reef manta ray (Mobula alfredi) populations along the Northeastern African coastline are poorly studied. Identifying critical habitats for this species is essential for future research and conservation efforts. D...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:22 -
The multivariate analysis of variance as a powerful approach for circular data
A broad range of scientific studies involve taking measurements on a circular, rather than linear, scale (often variables related to times or orientations). For linear measures there is a well-established stat...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:21 -
Environmental and anthropogenic influences on movement and foraging in a critically endangered lemur species, Propithecus tattersalli: implications for habitat conservation planning
Wildlife conservation often focuses on establishing protected areas. However, these conservation zones are frequently established without adequate knowledge of the movement patterns of the species they are des...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:20 -
Body-size dependent foraging strategies in the Christmas Island flying-fox: implications for seed and pollen dispersal within a threatened island ecosystem
Animals are important vectors for the dispersal of a wide variety of plant species, and thus play a key role in maintaining the health and biodiversity of natural ecosystems. On oceanic islands, flying-foxes a...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:19 -
Time-dependent memory and individual variation in Arctic brown bears (Ursus arctos)
Animal movement modelling provides unique insight about how animals perceive their landscape and how this perception may influence space use. When coupled with data describing an animal’s environment, ecologis...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:18 -
Towns and trails drive carnivore movement behaviour, resource selection, and connectivity
Global increases in human activity threaten connectivity of animal habitat and populations. Protection and restoration of wildlife habitat and movement corridors require robust models to forecast the effects o...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:17 -
African wild dog movements show contrasting responses to long and short term risk of encountering lions: analysis using dynamic Brownian bridge movement models
Prey depletion is a threat to the world’s large carnivores, and is likely to affect subordinate competitors within the large carnivore guild disproportionately. African lions limit African wild dog populations...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:16 -
Correction to: Individual consistency in migration strategies of a tropical seabird, the Round Island petrel
Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:15 -
Movement ecology of vulnerable lowland tapirs between areas of varying human disturbance
Animal movement is a key ecological process that is tightly coupled to local environmental conditions. While agriculture, urbanisation, and transportation infrastructure are critical to human socio-economic im...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:14 -
Individual consistency in migration strategies of a tropical seabird, the Round Island petrel
In migratory species, the extent of within- and between-individual variation in migratory strategies can influence potential rates and directions of responses to environmental changes. Quantifying this variati...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:13 -
Seasonal movements in caribou ecotypes of Western Canada
Several migratory ungulates, including caribou, are dramatically declining. Caribou of the Barren-ground ecotype, which forms its own subspecies, are known to be mainly migratory. By contrast, within the Woodl...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:12 -
Compensation for wind drift prevails for a shorebird on a long-distance, transoceanic flight
Conditions encountered en route can dramatically impact the energy that migratory species spend on movement. Migratory birds often manage energetic costs by adjusting their behavior in relation to wind conditions...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:11 -
Alternative migratory strategies related to life history differences in the Walleye (Sander vitreus)
While Pace of Life Syndrome predicts behavioural differences between individuals with differential growth and survival, testing these predictions in nature is challenging due to difficulties with measuring ind...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:10 -
Foraging on the wing for fish while migrating over changing landscapes: traveling behaviors vary with available aquatic habitat for Caspian terns
Birds that forage while covering distance during migration should adjust traveling behaviors as the availability of foraging habitat changes. Particularly, the behavior of those species that depend on bodies o...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:9 -
Paradigm versus paradox on the prairie: testing competing stream fish movement frameworks using an imperiled Great Plains minnow
Movement information can improve conservation of imperiled species, yet movement is not quantified for many organisms in need of conservation. Prairie chub (Macrhybopsis australis) is a regionally endemic freshwa...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:8 -
Categorising cheetah behaviour using tri-axial accelerometer data loggers: a comparison of model resolution and data logger performance
Extinction is one of the greatest threats to the living world, endangering organisms globally, advancing conservation to the forefront of species research. To maximise the efficacy of conservation efforts, und...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:7 -
Landscape characteristics influence ranging behavior of Asian elephants at the human-wildlands interface in Myanmar
Asian elephant numbers are declining across much of their range driven largely by serious threats from land use change resulting in habitat loss and fragmentation. Myanmar, holding critical range for the speci...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:6 -
High individual repeatability of the migratory behaviour of a long-distance migratory seabird
Understanding the evolution of migration requires knowledge of the patterns, sources, and consequences of variation in migratory behaviour, a need exacerbated by the fact that many migratory species show rapid...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:5 -
Differences in on-ground and aloft conditions explain seasonally different migration paths in Demoiselle crane
Although some migratory birds may take different routes during their outbound and inbound migration, the factors causing these differential migrations to and from the breeding grounds, have rarely been investi...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:4 -
The role of wind in controlling the connectivity of blue mussels (Mytilus edulis L.) populations
Larval connectivity between distinct benthic populations is essential for their persistence. Although connectivity is difficult to measure in situ, it can be predicted via models that simulate biophysical inte...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:3 -
Individual heterogeneity influences the effects of translocation on urban dispersal of an invasive reptile
Invasive reptiles pose a serious threat to global biodiversity, but early detection of individuals in an incipient population is often hindered by their cryptic nature, sporadic movements, and variation among ...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:2 -
Environmental drivers of autumn migration departure decisions in midcontinental mallards
The timing of autumn migration in ducks is influenced by a range of environmental conditions that may elicit individual experiences and responses from individual birds, yet most studies have investigated relat...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:1 -
A partial migrant relies upon a range-wide cue set but uses population-specific weighting for migratory timing
Many birds species range over vast geographic regions and migrate seasonally between their breeding and overwintering sites. Deciding when to depart for migration is one of the most consequential life-history ...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:63 -
Movement and dispersal of a habitat specialist in human-dominated landscapes: a case study of the red panda
Habitat specialists living in human-dominated landscapes are likely to be affected by habitat fragmentation and human disturbances more than generalists. But there is a paucity of information on their response...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:62 -
Migration distance affects how closely Eurasian wigeons follow spring phenology during migration
The timing of migration for herbivorous migratory birds is thought to coincide with spring phenology as emerging vegetation supplies them with the resources to fuel migration, and, in species with a capital br...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:61 -
Estimating the movements of terrestrial animal populations using broad-scale occurrence data
As human and automated sensor networks collect increasingly massive volumes of animal observations, new opportunities have arisen to use these data to infer or track species movements. Sources of broad scale o...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:60 -
Dispersal distance is driven by habitat availability and reproductive success in Northern Great Plains piping plovers
Dispersal is a critical life history strategy that has important conservation implications, particularly for at-risk species with active recovery efforts and migratory species. Both natal and breeding dispersa...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:59 -
Digging into the behaviour of an active hunting predator: arctic fox prey caching events revealed by accelerometry
Biologging now allows detailed recording of animal movement, thus informing behavioural ecology in ways unthinkable just a few years ago. In particular, combining GPS and accelerometry allows spatially explici...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:58 -
Roads constrain movement across behavioural processes in a partially migratory ungulate
Human disturbance alters animal movement globally and infrastructure, such as roads, can act as physical barriers that impact behaviour across multiple spatial scales. In ungulates, roads can particularly hamp...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:57 -
GPS tracking reveals landfill closures induce higher foraging effort and habitat switching in gulls
Landfills are a major subsidy for some animals, with implications for their life history and demography. Gulls feed extensively on food from landfills and closures are expected to have ecological consequences,...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:56 -
DynamoVis 1.0: an exploratory data visualization software for mapping movement in relation to internal and external factors
This paper introduces DynamoVis version 1.0, an open-source software developed to design, record and export custom animations and multivariate visualizations from movement data, enabling visual exploration and...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:55 -
Mechanistic movement models identify continuously updated autumn migration cues in Arctic caribou
Migrations in temperate systems typically have two migratory phases, spring and autumn, and many migratory ungulates track the pulse of spring vegetation growth during a synchronized spring migration. In contr...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:54 -
Days to visit an offshore island: effect of weather conditions on arrival fuel load and potential flight range for common blackbirds Turdus merula migrating over the North Sea
Crossing open water instead of following the coast(line) is one way for landbirds to continue migration. However, depending on prevailing weather and the birds’ physiological conditions, it is also a risky cho...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:53 -
Correction to: A role for lakes in revealing the nature of animal movement using high dimensional telemetry systems
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:52 -
Correction to: Far eastern curlew and whimbrel prefer flying low - wind support and good visibility appear only secondary factors in determining migratory flight altitude
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:51 -
The scent of fear makes sea urchins go ballistic
Classic ecological formulations of predator–prey interactions often assume that predators and prey interact randomly in an information-limited environment. In the field, however, most prey can accurately asses...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:50 -
Post-fire movements of Pacific marten (Martes caurina) depend on the severity of landscape change
Wildfires and forestry activities such as post-fire salvage logging are altering North American forests on a massive scale. Habitat change and fragmentation on forested landscapes may threaten forest specialis...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:49 -
Quantifying effects of snow depth on caribou winter range selection and movement in Arctic Alaska
Caribou and reindeer across the Arctic spend more than two thirds of their lives moving in snow. Yet snow-specific mechanisms driving their winter ecology and potentially influencing herd health and movement p...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:48 -
Birds of three worlds: moult migration to high Arctic expands a boreal-temperate flyway to a third biome
Knowledge on migration patterns and flyways is a key for understanding the dynamics of migratory populations and evolution of migratory behaviour. Bird migration is usually considered to be movements between b...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:47 -
Simulation experiment to test strategies of geomagnetic navigation during long-distance bird migration
Different theories suggest birds may use compass or map navigational systems associated with Earth’s magnetic intensity or inclination, especially during migratory flights. These theories have only been tested...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:46 -
Holling meets habitat selection: functional response of large herbivores revisited
Holling (Can Entomol 91(5):293–320, 1959) was the first to describe a functional response between a predator’s consumption-rate and the density of its prey. The same concept can be applied to the habitat selec...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:45 -
Variation in movement patterns of mule deer: have we oversimplified migration?
Conservation and management of migratory animals has gained attention in recent years, but the majority of research has focused on stereotypical ‘migrant’ and ‘resident’ behaviors, often failing to incorporate...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:44 -
Horizontal-vertical movement relationships: Adélie penguins forage continuously throughout provisioning trips
Diving marine predators forage in a three-dimensional environment, adjusting their horizontal and vertical movement behaviour in response to environmental conditions and the spatial distribution of prey. Expec...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:43 -
Simultaneous GPS-tracking of parents reveals a similar parental investment within pairs, but no immediate co-adjustment on a trip-to-trip basis
Parental care benefits the offspring, but comes at a cost for each parent, which in biparental species gives rise to a conflict between partners regarding the within-pair distribution of care. Pair members cou...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:42 -
Empirical evaluation of the spatial scale and detection process of camera trap surveys
Camera traps present a valuable tool for monitoring animals but detect species imperfectly. Occupancy models are frequently used to address this, but it is unclear what spatial scale the data represent. Althou...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:41