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Pelagic movements of pacific leatherback turtles (dermochelys coriacea) highlight the role of prey and ocean currents

Leatherback turtles are renowned for their trans-oceanic migrations. However, despite numerous movement studies, the precise drivers of movement patterns in leatherbacks remain elusive. Many previous studies o...

Authors: Robert S Schick, Jason J Roberts, Scott A Eckert, Patrick N Halpin, Helen Bailey, Fei Chai, Lei Shi and James S Clark

Dispersal in a changing world: opportunities, insights and challenges

It has been long recognised that dispersal is an important life-history trait that plays a key role in the demography and evolution of populations and species. This then suggests that dispersal play a central ...

Authors: Sylvie VM Tesson and Pim Edelaar

The Lévy flight foraging hypothesis: forgetting about memory may lead to false verification of Brownian motion

The Lévy flight foraging hypothesis predicts a transition from scale-free Lévy walk (LW) to scale-specific Brownian motion (BM) as an animal moves from resource-poor towards resource-rich environment. However,...

Authors: Arild O Gautestad and Atle Mysterud

Movement patterns of an arboreal marsupial at the edge of its range: a case study of the koala

Conservation strategies derived from research carried out in one part of the range of a widely distributed species and then uniformly applied over multiple regions risk being ineffective due to regional variat...

Authors: Nicole Davies, Galina Gramotnev, Leonie Seabrook, Adrian Bradley, Greg Baxter, Jonathan Rhodes, Daniel Lunney and Clive McAlpine

Methods for assessment of short-term coral reef fish movements within an acoustic array

Arrays of passive receivers are a widely used tool for tracking the movements of acoustically-tagged fish in marine ecosystems; however, the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of coral reef environments pose c...

Authors: Nicholas A Farmer, Jerald S Ault, Steven G Smith and Erik C Franklin

Integrating movement ecology with biodiversity research - exploring new avenues to address spatiotemporal biodiversity dynamics

Movement of organisms is one of the key mechanisms shaping biodiversity, e.g. the distribution of genes, individuals and species in space and time. Recent technological and conceptual advances have improved ou...

Authors: Florian Jeltsch, Dries Bonte, Guy Pe'er, Björn Reineking, Peter Leimgruber, Niko Balkenhol, Boris Schröder, Carsten M Buchmann, Thomas Mueller, Niels Blaum, Damaris Zurell, Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Thorsten Wiegand, Jana A Eccard, Heribert Hofer, Jette Reeg…

Mixed strategies of griffon vultures’ (Gyps fulvus) response to food deprivation lead to a hump-shaped movement pattern

The need to obtain food is a critical proximate driver of an organism’s movement that shapes the foraging and survival of individual animals. Consequently, the relationship between hunger and foraging has rece...

Authors: Orr Spiegel, Roi Harel, Wayne M Getz and Ran Nathan

Flying with the wind: scale dependency of speed and direction measurements in modelling wind support in avian flight

Understanding how environmental conditions, especially wind, influence birds' flight speeds is a prerequisite for understanding many important aspects of bird flight, including optimal migration strategies, na...

Authors: Kamran Safi, Bart Kranstauber, Rolf Weinzierl, Larry Griffin, Eileen C Rees, David Cabot, Sebastian Cruz, Carolina Proaño, John Y Takekawa, Scott H Newman, Jonas Waldenström, Daniel Bengtsson, Roland Kays, Martin Wikelski and Gil Bohrer

The environmental-data automated track annotation (Env-DATA) system: linking animal tracks with environmental data

The movement of animals is strongly influenced by external factors in their surrounding environment such as weather, habitat types, and human land use. With advances in positioning and sensor technologies, it ...

Authors: Somayeh Dodge, Gil Bohrer, Rolf Weinzierl, Sarah C Davidson, Roland Kays, David Douglas, Sebastian Cruz, Jiawei Han, David Brandes and Martin Wikelski

Home range plus: a space-time characterization of movement over real landscapes

Advances in GPS technology have created both opportunities in ecology as well as a need for analytical tools that can deal with the growing volume of data and ancillary variables associated with each location.

Authors: Andrew J Lyons, Wendy C Turner and Wayne M Getz

A milestone for movement ecology research

Authors: Ran Nathan and Luca Giuggioli