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Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:52
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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 -
A role for lakes in revealing the nature of animal movement using high dimensional telemetry systems
Movement ecology is increasingly relying on experimental approaches and hypothesis testing to reveal how, when, where, why, and which animals move. Movement of megafauna is inherently interesting but many of t...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:40 -
Adaptive drift and barrier-avoidance by a fly-forage migrant along a climate-driven flyway
Route choice and travel performance of fly-forage migrants are partly driven by large-scale habitat availability, but it remains unclear to what extent wind support through large-scale wind regimes moulds thei...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:37 -
Inclement weather forces stopovers and prevents migratory progress for obligate soaring migrants
Migrating birds experience weather conditions that change with time, which affect their decision to stop or resume migration. Soaring migrants are especially sensitive to changing weather conditions because th...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:39 -
Seasonality impacts collective movements in a wild group-living bird
A challenge faced by animals living in groups with stable long-term membership is to effectively coordinate their actions and maintain cohesion. However, as seasonal conditions alter the distribution of resour...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:38 -
Individual and seasonal variation in the movement behavior of two tropical nectarivorous birds
Movement of animals directly affects individual fitness, yet fine spatial and temporal resolution movement behavior has been studied in relatively few small species, particularly in the tropics. Nectarivorous ...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:36 -
Movement syndromes of a Neotropical frugivorous bat inhabiting heterogeneous landscapes in Brazil
There is growing evidence that individuals within populations can vary in both habitat use and movement behavior, but it is still not clear how these two relate to each other. The aim of this study was to test...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:35 -
Diffusion modeling reveals effects of multiple release sites and human activity on a recolonizing apex predator
Reintroducing predators is a promising conservation tool to help remedy human-caused ecosystem changes. However, the growth and spread of a reintroduced population is a spatiotemporal process that is driven by...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:34 -
Deterministic, random, or in between? Inferring the randomness level of wildlife movements
When assessing connectivity, it is crucial to rely on accurate modeling frameworks that consider species movement preferences and patterns. One important aspect is the level of randomness or unpredictability i...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:33 -
Far eastern curlew and whimbrel prefer flying low - wind support and good visibility appear only secondary factors in determining migratory flight altitude
In-flight conditions are hypothesized to influence the timing and success of long-distance migration. Wind assistance and thermal uplift are thought to reduce the energetic costs of flight, humidity, air press...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:32 -
Fusion of wildlife tracking and satellite geomagnetic data for the study of animal migration
Migratory animals use information from the Earth’s magnetic field on their journeys. Geomagnetic navigation has been observed across many taxa, but how animals use geomagnetic information to find their way is ...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:31 -
Caution is warranted when using animal space-use and movement to infer behavioral states
Identifying the behavioral state for wild animals that can’t be directly observed is of growing interest to the ecological community. Advances in telemetry technology and statistical methodologies allow resear...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:30 -
Correction to: Analysis of local habitat selection and large-scale attraction/avoidance based on animal tracking data: is there a single best method?
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:29 -
Limitations of using surrogates for behaviour classification of accelerometer data: refining methods using random forest models in Caprids
Animal-attached devices can be used on cryptic species to measure their movement and behaviour, enabling unprecedented insights into fundamental aspects of animal ecology and behaviour. However, direct observa...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:28 -
Interspecific and intraspecific foraging differentiation of neighbouring tropical seabirds
Social interactions, reproductive demands and intrinsic constraints all influence foraging decisions in animals. Understanding the relative importance of these factors in shaping the way that coexisting specie...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:27 -
Using tri-axial accelerometer loggers to identify spawning behaviours of large pelagic fish
Tri-axial accelerometers have been used to remotely describe and identify in situ behaviours of a range of animals without requiring direct observations. Datasets collected from these accelerometers (i.e. acce...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:26 -
Moving apart together: co-movement of a symbiont community and their ant host, and its importance for community assembly
Species interactions may affect spatial dynamics when the movement of one species is determined by the presence of another one. The most direct species-dependence of dispersal is vectored, usually cross-kingdo...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:25 -
How animals distribute themselves in space: energy landscapes of Antarctic avian predators
Energy landscapes provide an approach to the mechanistic basis of spatial ecology and decision-making in animals. This is based on the quantification of the variation in the energy costs of movements through a...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:24 -
Spatial structure in migration routes maintained despite regional convergence among eastern populations of Swainson’s Thrushes
Migratory connectivity links the different populations across the full cycle and across the species range and may lead to differences in survival among populations. Studies on spatial and temporal migratory co...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:23 -
Foraging conditions for breeding penguins improve with distance from colony and progression of the breeding season at the South Orkney Islands
According to central place foraging theory, animals will only increase the distance of their foraging trips if more distant prey patches offer better foraging opportunities. Thus, theory predicts that breeding...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:22 -
The use of nocturnal flights for barrier crossing in a diurnally migrating songbird
The migration patterns of land birds can generally be divided into those species that migrate principally during the day and those that migrate during the night. Some species may show individual plasticity in ...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:21 -
Analysis of local habitat selection and large-scale attraction/avoidance based on animal tracking data: is there a single best method?
New wildlife telemetry and tracking technologies have become available in the last decade, leading to a large increase in the volume and resolution of animal tracking data. These technical developments have be...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:20 -
Correction to: Identifying resting locations of a small elusive forest carnivore using a two-stage model accounting for GPS measurement error and hidden behavioral states
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:19 -
Behaviour-specific habitat selection patterns of breeding barn owls
The intensification of agricultural practices over the twentieth century led to a cascade of detrimental effects on ecosystems. In Europe, agri-environment schemes (AES) have since been adopted to counter the ...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:18 -
Identifying resting locations of a small elusive forest carnivore using a two-stage model accounting for GPS measurement error and hidden behavioral states
Studies of animal movement using location data are often faced with two challenges. First, time series of animal locations are likely to arise from multiple behavioral states (e.g., directed movement, resting)...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:17 -
Sensitivity of migratory connectivity estimates to spatial sampling design
The use of statistical methods to quantify the strength of migratory connectivity is commonplace. However, little attention has been given to their sensitivity to spatial sampling designs and scales of inference.
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:16 -
An evaluation of machine learning classifiers for next-generation, continuous-ethogram smart trackers
Our understanding of movement patterns and behaviours of wildlife has advanced greatly through the use of improved tracking technologies, including application of accelerometry (ACC) across a wide range of tax...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:15 -
Going underground: short- and long-term movements may reveal the fossorial spatial ecology of an amphisbaenian
The movement and spatial ecology of an animal depends on its morphological and functional adaptations to its environment. In fossorial animals, adaptations to the underground life help to face peculiar ecologi...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:14 -
Wave-slope soaring of the brown pelican
From the laboratory at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, it is common to see the brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) traveling along the crests of ocean waves just offshore of the surf-zone. When flying in ...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:13 -
Prey and habitat distribution are not enough to explain predator habitat selection: addressing intraspecific interactions, behavioural state and time
Movements and habitat selection of predators shape ecological communities by determining the spatiotemporal distribution of predation risk. Although intraspecific interactions associated to territoriality and ...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:12 -
Accelerometer informed time-energy budgets reveal the importance of temperature to the activity of a wild, arid zone canid
Globally, arid regions are expanding and becoming hotter and drier with climate change. For medium and large bodied endotherms in the arid zone, the necessity to dissipate heat drives a range of adaptations, f...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:11 -
Migration ecology of western gray catbirds
For many songbirds in North America, we lack movement details about the full annual cycle, notably outside the breeding season. Understanding how populations are linked spatially between breeding and overwinte...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:10 -
Migrating curlews on schedule: departure and arrival patterns of a long-distance migrant depend on time and breeding location rather than on wind conditions
Departure decisions in long-distance migratory bird species may depend on favourable weather conditions and beneficial resources at the destination location, overarched by genetic triggers. However, few studie...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:9 -
An empirical Bayesian approach to incorporate directional movement information from a forage fish into the Arnason-Schwarz mark-recapture model
Over the past two decades, various species of forage fish have been successfully implanted with miniaturized acoustic transmitters and subsequently monitored using stationary acoustic receivers. When acoustic ...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:8 -
Hidden Markov models identify major movement modes in accelerometer and magnetometer data from four albatross species
Inertial measurement units (IMUs) with high-resolution sensors such as accelerometers are now used extensively to study fine-scale behavior in a wide range of marine and terrestrial animals. Robust and practic...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:7 -
A hierarchical machine learning framework for the analysis of large scale animal movement data
In recent years the field of movement ecology has been revolutionized by our ability to collect high-accuracy, fine scale telemetry data from individual animals and groups. This growth in our data collection c...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:6 -
Where did they not go? Considerations for generating pseudo-absences for telemetry-based habitat models
Habitat suitability models give insight into the ecological drivers of species distributions and are increasingly common in management and conservation planning. Telemetry data can be used in habitat models to...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:5 -
Seed dispersal as a search strategy: dynamic and fragmented landscapes select for multi-scale movement strategies in plants
Plant dispersal is a critical factor driving ecological responses to global changes. Knowledge on the mechanisms of dispersal is rapidly advancing, but selective pressures responsible for the evolution of disp...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:4 -
Bats seek refuge in cluttered environment when exposed to white and red lights at night
Artificial light at night is recognized as an increasing threat to biodiversity. However, information on the way highly mobile taxa such as bats spatially respond to light is limited. Following the hypothesis ...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:3 -
Winter fidelity, movements, and energy expenditure of Midcontinent Greater White-fronted Geese
Animal movement patterns are the result of both environmental and physiological effects, and the rates of movement and energy expenditure of given movement strategies are influenced by the physical environment...
Citation: Movement Ecology 2021 9:2