In the open ocean, eddies and associated structures (fronts, filaments) have strong influences on the foraging activities of top-predators through the enhancement and the distribution of marine productivity, z...
Authors: Cecile Bon, Alice Della Penna, Francesco d’Ovidio, John Y.P. Arnould, Timothée Poupart and Charles-André Bost
Detailed information about animal location and movement is often crucial in studies of natural behaviour and how animals respond to anthropogenic activities. Dead-reckoning can be used to infer such detailed i...
Authors: Paul J. Wensveen, Len Thomas and Patrick J. O. Miller
Marine predators are ecosystem sentinels because their foraging behaviour and reproductive success reflect the variability occurring in the lower trophic levels of the ecosystem. In an era of environmental cha...
Authors: Michel Widmann, Akiko Kato, Ben Raymond, Frédéric Angelier, Benjamin Arthur, Olivier Chastel, Marie Pellé, Thierry Raclot and Yan Ropert-Coudert
Smart tags attached to freely-roaming animals recording multiple parameters at infra-second rates are becoming commonplace, and are transforming our understanding of the way wild animals behave. Interpretation...
Authors: James S. Walker, Mark W. Jones, Robert S. Laramee, Mark D. Holton, Emily LC Shepard, Hannah J. Williams, D. Michael Scantlebury, Nikki, J. Marks, Elizabeth A. Magowan, Iain E. Maguire, Owen R. Bidder, Agustina Di Virgilio and Rory P. Wilson
To meet the minimum energetic requirements needed to support parents and their provisioned offspring, the timing of breeding in birds typically coincides with periods of high food abundance. Seasonality and sy...
Authors: Melinda G. Conners, Elliott L. Hazen, Daniel P. Costa and Scott A. Shaffer
Behaviour and time spent active and inactive are key factors in animal ecology, with important consequences for bioenergetics. For the first time, here, we equipped the gastropod Tectus (= Trochus) niloticus with...
Authors: Aurélie Jolivet, Laurent Chauvaud, Julien Thébault, Anthony A. Robson, Pascal Dumas, George Amos and Anne Lorrain
Whether, and how, animals move requires them to assess their environment to determine the most appropriate action and trajectory, although the precise way the environment is scanned has been little studied. We...
Authors: Gwendoline Ixia Wilson, Brad Norman, James Walker, Hannah J. Williams, M. D. Holton, D. Clarke and Rory P. Wilson
Research on wild animal ecology is increasingly employing GPS telemetry in order to determine animal movement. However, GPS systems record position intermittently, providing no information on latent position o...
Authors: O. R. Bidder, J. S. Walker, M. W. Jones, M. D. Holton, P. Urge, D. M. Scantlebury, N. J. Marks, E. A. Magowan, I. E. Maguire and R. P. Wilson
The energy requirements of free-ranging marine mammals are challenging to measure due to cryptic and far-ranging feeding habits, but are important to quantify given the potential impacts of high-level predator...
Authors: JL Maresh, T. Adachi, A. Takahashi, Y. Naito, DE Crocker, M. Horning, TM Williams and DP Costa
Waterfowl can exploit distant ephemeral wetlands in arid environments and provide valuable insights into the response of birds to rapid environmental change, and behavioural flexibility of avian movements. Cur...
Authors: John F. McEvoy, David A. Roshier, Raoul F. H. Ribot and Andy T. D. Bennett
Given that winds encountered on migration could theoretically double or half the energy expenditure of aerial migrants, there should be strong selection on behaviour in relation to wind conditions aloft. Howev...
Authors: Greg W Mitchell, Bradley K Woodworth, Philip D Taylor and D Ryan Norris
Establishing patterns of movements of free-ranging animals in marine ecosystems is crucial for a better understanding of their feeding ecology, life history traits and conservation. As central place foragers, ...
Population connectivity, which is essential for the persistence of benthic marine metapopulations, depends on how life history traits and the environment interact to influence larval production, dispersal and ...
Authors: Eric A. Treml, John R. Ford, Kerry P. Black and Stephen E. Swearer
Paired with satellite location telemetry, animal-borne instruments can collect spatiotemporal data describing the animal’s movement and environment at a scale relevant to its behavior.
Authors: Laurie L Baker, Joanna E Mills Flemming, Ian D Jonsen, Damian C Lidgard, Sara J Iverson and W Don Bowen
How an animal moves through its environment directly impacts its survival, reproduction, and thus biological fitness. A basic measure describing how an individual (or group) travels through its environment is ...
Authors: Caspian Johnson, Alex K Piel, Dan Forman, Fiona A Stewart and Andrew J King
The Brownian bridge movement model (BBMM) provides a biologically sound approximation of the movement path of an animal based on discrete location data, and is a powerful method to quantify utilization distrib...
Authors: Kevin Buchin, Stef Sijben, E Emiel van Loon, Nir Sapir, Stéphanie Mercier, T Jean Marie Arseneau and Erik P Willems
A population of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) spends the austral summer feeding on Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) along the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP). These whales acquire their annual ene...
Authors: Corrie Curtice, David W Johnston, Hugh Ducklow, Nick Gales, Patrick N Halpin and Ari S Friedlaender
Free ranging foraging animals can vary their searching intensity in response to the profitability of the environment by modifying their movements. Marine diving animals forage in a three dimensional space and ...
Authors: Virginie Ramasco, Frédéric Barraquand, Martin Biuw, Bernie McConnell and Kjell T Nilssen
Individual movement is critical to organismal fitness and also influences broader population processes such as demographic stochasticity and gene flow. Climatic change and habitat fragmentation render the driv...
Authors: Tom Lindström, Benjamin L Phillips, Gregory P Brown and Richard Shine
Many animals must locate odorant point sources during key behaviors such as reproduction, foraging and habitat selection. Cues from such sources are typically distributed as air- or water-borne chemical plumes...
Animal movement patterns in space and time are a central aspect of animal ecology. Remotely-sensed environmental indices can play a key role in understanding movement patterns by providing contiguous, relative...
Authors: Wiebke Neumann, Sebastian Martinuzzi, Anna B Estes, Anna M Pidgeon, Holger Dettki, Göran Ericsson and Volker C Radeloff
Global positioning system (GPS) technology for monitoring home range and movements of wildlife has resulted in prohibitively large sample sizes of locations for traditional estimators of home range. We used ar...
Authors: W David Walter, Dave P Onorato and Justin W Fischer
Seagrasses are clonal marine plants that form important biotic habitats in many tropical and temperate coastal ecosystems. While there is a reasonable understanding of the dynamics of asexual (vegetative) grow...
Authors: Leonardo Ruiz-Montoya, Ryan J Lowe and Gary A Kendrick
An adaption of the optimal foraging theory suggests that herbivores deplete, depart, and finally return to foraging patches leaving time for regrowth [van Moorter et al., Oikos 118:641–652, 2009]. Inter-patch ...
The spatial distribution of forage resources is a major driver of animal movement patterns. Understanding where animals forage is important for the conservation of multi-species communities, since interspecifi...
Authors: Anna K Schweiger, Martin Schütz, Pia Anderwald, Michael E Schaepman, Mathias Kneubühler, Rudolf Haller and Anita C Risch
The processes that cause and influence movement are one of the main points of enquiry in movement ecology. However, ecology is not the only discipline interested in movement: a number of information sciences a...
Authors: Urška Demšar, Kevin Buchin, Francesca Cagnacci, Kamran Safi, Bettina Speckmann, Nico Van de Weghe, Daniel Weiskopf and Robert Weibel
Species movement responses to landscape structures have been studied using a variety of methods, but movement research is still in need of simple methods that help predicting and comparing movements across str...
Authors: Henna Fabritius, Katja Rönkä and Otso Ovaskainen
Identifying movement routes and stopover sites is necessary for developing effective management and conservation strategies for migratory animals. In the case of migratory birds, a collection of migration rout...
Authors: Eric C Palm, Scott H Newman, Diann J Prosser, Xiangming Xiao, Luo Ze, Nyambayar Batbayar, Sivananinthaperumal Balachandran and John Y Takekawa
Accelerometers are useful tools for biologists seeking to gain a deeper understanding of the daily behavior of cryptic species. We describe how we used GPS and tri-axial accelerometer (sampling at 64 Hz) colla...
Authors: Yiwei Wang, Barry Nickel, Matthew Rutishauser, Caleb M Bryce, Terrie M Williams, Gabriel Elkaim and Christopher C Wilmers
Tracking individual animals using satellite telemetry has improved our understanding of animal movements considerably. Nonetheless, thorough statistical treatment of Argos datasets is often jeopardized by thei...
Authors: Jean-François Therrien, David Pinaud, Gilles Gauthier, Nicolas Lecomte, Keith L Bildstein and Joël Bety
The study of animal movement is experiencing rapid progress in recent years, forcefully driven by technological advancement. Biologgers with Acceleration (ACC) recordings are becoming increasingly popular in t...
Authors: Yehezkel S Resheff, Shay Rotics, Roi Harel, Orr Spiegel and Ran Nathan
Linking animal movements to landscape features is critical to identify factors that shape the spatial behaviour of animals. Habitat selection is led by behavioural decisions and is shaped by the environment, t...
Authors: Mirjana Bevanda, Ned Horning, Bjoern Reineking, Marco Heurich, Martin Wegmann and Joerg Mueller
Animals adjust activity budgets as competing demands for limited time and energy shift across life history phases. For far-ranging migrants and especially pelagic seabirds, activity during breeding and migrati...
Authors: Sarah E Gutowsky, Lee FG Gutowsky, Ian D Jonsen, Marty L Leonard, Maura B Naughton, Marc D Romano and Scott A Shaffer
Little is known about migration patterns and seasonal distribution away from coastal summer feeding habitats of many pelagic baleen whales. Recently, large-scale passive acoustic monitoring networks have becom...
Authors: Denise Risch, Manuel Castellote, Christopher W Clark, Genevieve E Davis, Peter J Dugan, Lynne EW Hodge, Anurag Kumar, Klaus Lucke, David K Mellinger, Sharon L Nieukirk, Cristian Marian Popescu, Christian Ramp, Andrew J Read, Aaron N Rice, Monica A Silva, Ursula Siebert…
Recent research in animal behaviour has contributed to determine how alignment, turning responses, and changes of speed mediate flocking and schooling interactions in different animal species. Here, we propose...
Authors: Andrea Perna, Guillaume Grégoire and Richard P Mann
Animal movement is essential to our understanding of population dynamics, animal behavior, and the impacts of global change. Coupled with high-resolution biotelemetry data, exciting new inferences about animal...
Authors: Brett T McClintock, Devin S Johnson, Mevin B Hooten, Jay M Ver Hoef and Juan M Morales
Windscapes affect energy costs for flying animals, but animals can adjust their behavior to accommodate wind-induced energy costs. Theory predicts that flying animals should decrease air speed to compensate fo...
Authors: Kyle Hamish Elliott, Lorraine S Chivers, Lauren Bessey, Anthony J Gaston, Scott A Hatch, Akiko Kato, Orla Osborne, Yan Ropert-Coudert, John R Speakman and James F Hare
Animal spacing has important implications for population abundance, species demography and the environment. Mechanisms underlying spatial segregation have their roots in the characteristics of the animals, the...
Migratory species face numerous threats related to human encroachment and climate change. Several migratory populations are declining and individuals are losing their migratory behaviour. To understand how hab...
Authors: Mael Le Corre, Christian Dussault and Steeve D Côté
Dispersal of pollen and seeds are essential functions of plant species, with far-reaching demographic, ecological and evolutionary consequences. Interest in plant dispersal has increased with concerns about th...
Authors: Juan J Robledo-Arnuncio, Etienne K Klein, Helene C Muller-Landau and Luis Santamaría
Dispersal has a critical influence on demography and gene flow and as such maintaining connectivity between populations is an essential element of modern conservation. Advances in satellite radiotelemetry are ...
Authors: Joshua Killeen, Henrik Thurfjell, Simone Ciuti, Dale Paton, Marco Musiani and Mark S Boyce
Understanding how dispersal movements are motivated and executed is the core business of dispersal evolutionary ecology, which is an active research field in environmental sciences. However, recent advances in...
Authors: Michel Baguette, Virginie M Stevens and Jean Clobert
Foraging movements of animals shape their efficiency in finding food and their exposure to the environment while doing so. Our goal was to test the optimal foraging theory prediction that territorial acorn woo...
Authors: Pamela G Thompson, Peter E Smouse, Douglas G Scofield and Victoria L Sork
Many animals are known to have improved navigational efficiency when moving together as a social group. One potential mechanism for social group navigation is known as the ‘many wrongs principle’, where inform...
Authors: David W Winkler, Christian Jørgensen, Christiaan Both, Alasdair I Houston, John M McNamara, Douglas J Levey, Jesko Partecke, Adam Fudickar, Alex Kacelnik, David Roshier and Theunis Piersma
Billions of organisms travel through the air, influencing population dynamics, community interactions, ecosystem services and our lives in many different ways. Yet monitoring these movements are technically ve...
Authors: Judy Shamoun-Baranes, Jose A Alves, Silke Bauer, Adriaan M Dokter, Ommo Hüppop, Jarmo Koistinen, Hidde Leijnse, Felix Liechti, Hans van Gasteren and Jason W Chapman
How foragers move across the landscape to search for resources and obtain energy is a central issue in ecology. Direct energetic quantification of animal movements allows for testing optimal foraging theory pr...
Authors: Maite Louzao, Thorsten Wiegand, Frederic Bartumeus and Henri Weimerskirch
Seed dispersal alters gene flow, reproduction, migration and ultimately spatial organization of dryland ecosystems. Because many seeds in drylands lack adaptations for long-distance dispersal, seed transport b...
Authors: Sally E Thompson, Shmuel Assouline, Li Chen, Ana Trahktenbrot, Tal Svoray and Gabriel G Katul
Animal-borne accelerometers measure body orientation and movement and can thus be used to classify animal behaviour. To univocally and automatically analyse the large volume of data generated, we need classifi...
Authors: Roeland A Bom, Willem Bouten, Theunis Piersma, Kees Oosterbeek and Jan A van Gils
