As a result of the significant disruption that is being caused by the COVID-19 pandemic we are very aware that many researchers will have difficulty in meeting the timelines associated with our peer review process during normal times. Please do let us know if you need additional time. Our systems will continue to remind you of the original timelines but we intend to be highly flexible at this time.
Announcing New Thematic Series
We are proud to announce a new thematic series with the title 'Integrating Movement Ecology with Biodiversity Research'.
Read MoreArticles
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Home range plus: a space-time characterization of movement over real landscapes
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The environmental-data automated track annotation (Env-DATA) system: linking animal tracks with environmental data
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Applications of step-selection functions in ecology and conservation
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Integrating movement ecology with biodiversity research - exploring new avenues to address spatiotemporal biodiversity dynamics
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Flying with the wind: scale dependency of speed and direction measurements in modelling wind support in avian flight
Featured Article
Surviving in steep terrain: a lab-to-field assessment of locomotor costs for wild mountain lions (Puma concolor)
Aims and scope
Movement Ecology is an open-access interdisciplinary journal publishing novel insights from empirical and theoretical approaches into the ecology of movement of the whole organism – either animals, plants or microorganisms – as the central theme. We welcome manuscripts on any taxa and any movement phenomena (e.g. foraging, dispersal and seasonal migration) addressing important research questions on the patterns, mechanisms, causes and consequences of organismal movement. Manuscripts will be rigorously peer-reviewed to ensure novelty and high quality.
COVID-19 and impact on peer review
Movement Ecology is proud to present the Proceedings of the 6th International Bio-Logging Science Symposium, in conjunction with Animal Biotelemetry.
Editors-in-Chief
Ran Nathan is a professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and director of the Minerva Center for Movement Ecology. His Movement Ecology Lab studies foraging, dispersal, migration and other types of movements in plants and animals, mostly birds. These studies typically combine advanced biotelemetry of free-ranging animals, mechanistic models, molecular tools, and various observational and experimental approaches in the laboratory and in the field, both in Israel and around the world.
Luca Giuggioli is a faculty member of the Department of Engineering Mathematics and the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol, UK, and a core member of the Bristol Centre for Complexity Sciences. Work in his lab focuses on addressing fundamental questions in animal ecology to explain a variety of phenomena including behavioural interactions, foraging, social spacing, collective movement and epidemic disease spread. These studies involve the use of mathematical, computational and statistical techniques to develop mechanistic models of organism movement that explain empirical observations.
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Annual Journal Metrics
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Speed
54 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
43 days to first decision for all manuscripts
100 days from submission to acceptance
34 days from acceptance to publication
Citation Impact
3.745 - 2-year Impact factor
1.610 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
2.095 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
Usage
118,851 Downloads
964 Altmetric Mentions
