Bats are among the most successful desert mammals. Yet, our understanding of their spatio-temporal dynamics in habitat use associated with the seasonal oscillation of resources is still limited. In this study,...
Authors: Irene Conenna, Adrià López-Baucells, Ricardo Rocha, Simon Ripperger and Mar Cabeza
Anthropogenic changes in the climate and environment have globally affected ecological processes such that the spatiotemporal occurrence of the main annual cycle events (i.e., breeding, wintering, moulting, an...
Movement decisions made in space and time define how wildlife meet competing extrinsic and intrinsic demands to maximize fitness. Differential selection of resource patches provides one example of how to measu...
Species distribution models have shown that blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) occur seasonally in high densities in the most biologically productive regions of the California Current Ecosystem (CCE). Satellite ...
Authors: Daniel M. Palacios, Helen Bailey, Elizabeth A. Becker, Steven J. Bograd, Monica L. DeAngelis, Karin A. Forney, Elliott L. Hazen, Ladd M. Irvine and Bruce R. Mate
With the growth and expansion of human development, large mammals will increasingly encounter humans, elevating the likelihood of human-wildlife conflicts. Understanding the behavior and movement of large mamm...
Authors: Katherine A. Zeller, David W. Wattles, Laura Conlee and Stephen DeStefano
Oribatida and Collembola are an important part of the soil food web and increase soil fertility by contributing to the recycling of nutrients out of dead organic matter. Active locomotion enables only limited ...
Authors: Meike M. Schuppenhauer, Ricarda Lehmitz and Willi E. R. Xylander
The ability to observe animal movement and possible correlates has increased strongly over the past decades. Methods to analyze trajectories have developed in parallel, but many tools fail to make an immediate...
Multiple methods have been developed to infer behavioral states from animal movement data, but rarely has their accuracy been assessed from independent evidence, especially for location data sampled with high ...
Authors: Edward Hurme, Eliezer Gurarie, Stefan Greif, L. Gerardo Herrera M., José Juan Flores-Martínez, Gerald S. Wilkinson and Yossi Yovel
Caribou in the Western Arctic Herd undertake one of the longest, remaining intact migrations of terrestrial mammals in the world. They are also the most important subsistence resource for many northern rural r...
Several generalist species benefit from food provided by human activities. Food from anthropogenic sources is often high in caloric value and can positively influence reproductive success or survival. However,...
Authors: Susanne van Donk, Judy Shamoun-Baranes, Jaap van der Meer and Kees C. J. Camphuysen
Kernel density estimation (KDE) is a major tool in the movement ecologist toolbox that is used to delineate where geo-tracked animals spend their time. Because KDE bandwidth optimizers are sensitive to tempora...
For data collected on a circular rather than linear scale, a very common procedure is to test whether the underlying distribution appears to deviate from circular uniformity. Rao’s spacing test is often used t...
Authors: Lukas Landler, Graeme D. Ruxton and E. Pascal Malkemper
Many animals move in three dimensions and many animal tracking studies collect the data on their movement in three physical dimensions. However, there is a lack of approaches that consider the vertical dimensi...
Flying foxes (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) are large bats that often roost in the sun, hence solar-powered GPS/GSM devices can track their movements over extended periods. The endemic Mauritian flying fox (Pteropus ...
Authors: Ryszard Z. Oleksy, Charles L. Ayady, Vikash Tatayah, Carl Jones, Paul W. Howey, Jérémy S. P. Froidevaux, Paul A. Racey and Gareth Jones
Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported that one of the authors’ names was spelled incorrectly. In this Correction the incorrect and correct author name are shown. The original ...
Authors: Christine M. Anderson, H. Grant Gilchrist, Robert A. Ronconi, Katherine R. Shlepr, Daniel E. Clark, D. V. Chip Weseloh, Gregory J. Robertson and Mark L. Mallory
Lack of suitable analytical software and computational power constrains the comprehension of animal movement. In particular, we are aware of no tools allowing simulating spatially-explicit multistate Markovian...
Given their dormancy capability (long-term resistant stages) and their ability to colonise and reproduce, microscopic aquatic animals have been suggested having cosmopolitan distribution. Their dormant stages ...
Bacterial swarming is a collective mode of motion in which cells migrate rapidly over surfaces, forming dynamic patterns of whirls and jets. This review presents a physical point of view of swarming bacteria, ...
Recognizing the factors influencing migratory individuals throughout their annual cycle is important for understanding the drivers of population dynamics. Previous studies have found that Herring Gulls (Larus arg...
Authors: Christine M. Anderson, H. Grant Gilchrist, Robert A. Ronconi, Katherine R. Shlepr, Daniel E. Clark, D. V. Chip Weseloh, Gregory J. Robertson and Mark L. Mallory
The Northwest Atlantic (NWA) leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) subpopulation is one of the last healthy ones on Earth. Its conservation is thus of major importance for the conservation of the species itse...
Spatio-temporal patterns of movement can characterize relationships between organisms and their surroundings, and address gaps in our understanding of species ecology, activity budgets, bioenergetics, and habi...
Authors: Fiona McDuie, Michael L. Casazza, Cory T. Overton, Mark P. Herzog, C. Alexander Hartman, Sarah H. Peterson, Cliff L. Feldheim and Joshua T. Ackerman
In the original publication of this article [1], the majority
Authors: Thomas Oudman, Theunis Piersma, Mohamed V. Ahmedou Salem, Marieke E. Feis, Anne Dekinga, Sander Holthuijsen, Job ten Horn, Jan A. van Gils and Allert I. Bijleveld
Individual bees exhibit complex movement patterns to efficiently exploit small areas within larger plant populations. How such individual spatial behaviours scale up to the collective level, when several forag...
Authors: Cristian Pasquaretta, Raphael Jeanson, Jerome Pansanel, Nigel E. Raine, Lars Chittka and Mathieu Lihoreau
For the conservation and management of migratory species that strongly decrease or increase due to anthropological impacts, a clear delineation of populations and quantification of possible mixing (migratory c...
Authors: A. Kölzsch, G. J. D. M. Müskens, P. Szinai, S. Moonen, P. Glazov, H. Kruckenberg, M. Wikelski and B. A. Nolet
Telemetry and biologging systems, ‘tracking’ hereafter, have been instrumental in meeting the challenges associated with studying the ecology and behaviour of cryptic, wide-ranging marine mega-vertebrates. Ove...
Authors: Lucy C. M. Omeyer, Wayne J. Fuller, Brendan J. Godley, Robin T. E. Snape and Annette C. Broderick
In long-lived seabirds that migrate large distances independently of each other, the early part of the breeding season is crucially important for a successful reproductive attempt. During this phase, pair bond...
Authors: Petra Quillfeldt, Henri Weimerskirch, Juan F. Masello, Karine Delord, Rona A. R. McGill, Robert W. Furness and Yves Cherel
In movement ecology, the few works that have taken collective behaviour into account are data-driven and rely on simplistic theoretical assumptions, relying in metrics that may or may not be measuring what is ...
Authors: Rocio Joo, Marie-Pierre Etienne, Nicolas Bez and Stéphanie Mahévas
Long-distance migration has evolved multiple times in different animal taxa. For insect migrants, the complete annual migration cycle covering several thousand kilometres, may be performed by several generatio...
Authors: Oskar Brattström, Anatoly Shapoval, Leonard I. Wassenaar, Keith A. Hobson and Susanne Åkesson
Space use strategies by foraging animals are often considered to be species-specific. However, similarity between conspecific strategies may also result from similar resource environments. Here, we revisit cla...
Authors: Thomas Oudman, Theunis Piersma, Mohamed V. Ahmedou Salem, Marieke E. Feis, Anne Dekinga, Sander Holthuijsen, Job ten Horn, Jan A. van Gils and Allert I. Bijleveld
Previous investigations of autumn-migrating ducks have reported weak connections between weather conditions and the decision to migrate from stopover sites. We leveraged relatively new weather surveillance rad...
Authors: Benjamin J. O’Neal, Joshua D. Stafford, Ronald P. Larkin and Eric S. Michel
While many species have suffered from the detrimental impacts of increasing human population growth, some species, such as cougars (Puma concolor), have been observed using human-modified landscapes. However, hum...
Authors: Frances E. Buderman, Mevin B Hooten, Mathew W Alldredge, Ephraim M Hanks and Jacob S Ivan
The Arctic is experiencing rapid reductions in sea ice and in some areas tidal glaciers are melting and retracting onto land. These changes are occurring at extremely rapid rates in the Northeast Atlantic Arct...
Authors: Jade Vacquié-Garcia, Christian Lydersen, Rolf A. Ims and Kit M. Kovacs
High-latitude bird migration has evolved after the last glaciation, in less than 10,000–15,000 years. Migrating songbirds rely on an endogenous migratory program, encoding timing, fueling, and routes, but it i...
Authors: Kristaps Sokolovskis, Giuseppe Bianco, Mikkel Willemoes, Diana Solovyeva, Staffan Bensch and Susanne Åkesson
Over the past decade, the miniaturisation of animal borne tags such as geolocators and GPS-transmitters has revolutionized our knowledge of the whereabouts of migratory species. Novel light-weight multi-sensor...
Authors: Felix Liechti, Silke Bauer, Kiran L. Dhanjal-Adams, Tamara Emmenegger, Pavel Zehtindjiev and Steffen Hahn
Increases in landscape connectivity can improve a species’ ability to cope with habitat fragmentation and degradation. Wildlife corridors increase landscape connectivity and it is therefore important to identi...
Authors: Anne K. Scharf, Jerrold L. Belant, Dean E. Beyer Jr, Martin Wikelski and Kamran Safi
Matching animal movement with the behaviors that shape life history requires a rigorous connection between the observed patterns of space use and inferred behavioral states. As animal-borne dataloggers capture...
Authors: Ben G. Weinstein, Ladd Irvine and Ari S. Friedlaender
Telemetry-based movement research has become central for learning about the behavior, ecology and conservation of wide-ranging species. Particularly, early telemetry studies were conducted on vultures and cond...
Authors: Pablo A. E. Alarcón and Sergio A. Lambertucci
Millions of flying migrants encounter the Great Lakes and other large water bodies on long-distance flights each spring and fall, but quantitative data regarding how they traverse these obstacles are limited. ...
Authors: Kevin W. Heist, Tim S. Bowden, Jake Ferguson, Nathan A. Rathbun, Erik C. Olson, Daniel C. Nolfi, Rebecca Horton, Jeffrey C. Gosse, Douglas H. Johnson and Michael T. Wells
Persistent declines in migratory songbird populations continue to motivate research exploring contributing factors to inform conservation efforts. Nearctic-Neotropical migratory species’ population declines ha...
Authors: Zachary S. Ladin, Steffie Van Nieuland, Solny A. Adalsteinsson, Vincent D’Amico, Jacob L. Bowman, Jeffrey J. Buler, Jan M. Baetens, Bernard De Baets and W. Gregory Shriver
Animals change their habitat use in response to spatio-temporal fluctuation of resources. Some resources may vary periodically according to the moonphase. Yet it is poorly documented how animals, particularly ...
Authors: Manuel Roeleke, Tobias Teige, Uwe Hoffmeister, Friederike Klingler and Christian C. Voigt
Characterizing animal space use is critical for understanding ecological relationships. Animal telemetry technology has revolutionized the fields of ecology and conservation biology by providing high quality s...
Authors: Brian D. Gerber, Mevin B. Hooten, Christopher P. Peck, Mindy B. Rice, James H. Gammonley, Anthony D. Apa and Amy J. Davis
Ectotherms are assumed to be strongly influenced by the surrounding ambient and environmental conditions for daily activity and movement. As such, ecological and physiological factors contribute to stimuli inf...
Authors: Adam F. Parlin, Jessica A. Nardone, John Kelly Dougherty, Mimi Rebein, Kamran Safi and Paul J. Schaeffer
Continued exploration of the performance of the recently proposed cross-validation-based approach for delimiting home ranges using the Time Local Convex Hull (T-LoCoH) method has revealed a number of issues wi...
Authors: Eric R. Dougherty, Perry de Valpine, Colin J. Carlson, Jason K. Blackburn and Wayne M. Getz
Central place foragers (CPF) rest within a central place, and theory predicts that distance of patches from this central place sets the outer limits of the foraging arena. Many marine ectothermic predators beh...
Authors: Yannis P. Papastamatiou, Yuuki Y. Watanabe, Urška Demšar, Vianey Leos-Barajas, Darcy Bradley, Roland Langrock, Kevin Weng, Christopher G. Lowe, Alan M. Friedlander and Jennifer E. Caselle
Birds use different compass mechanisms based on celestial (stars, sun, skylight polarization pattern) and geomagnetic cues for orientation. Yet, much remains to be understood how birds actually use these compa...
Authors: Rachel Muheim, Heiko Schmaljohann and Thomas Alerstam
Understanding white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) habitat use in coastal areas adjacent to large cities, is an important step when formulating potential solutions to the conservation conflict that exists between...
Authors: Alison A. Kock, Theoni Photopoulou, Ian Durbach, Katya Mauff, Michael Meÿer, Deon Kotze, Charles L. Griffiths and M. Justin O’Riain
A utilization distribution quantifies the temporal and spatial probability of space use for individuals or populations. These patterns in movement arise from individuals’ internal state and from their response...
Authors: Amanda Bishop, Casey Brown, Michael Rehberg, Leigh Torres and Markus Horning
Variation in animal space use reflects fitness trade-offs associated with ecological constraints. Associated theories such as the metabolic theory of ecology and the resource dispersion hypothesis generate pre...
The extent to which seasonal changes in food availability affect small-scale movements in free-ranging populations of birds of prey is relatively little studied. Here we describe a seasonal “micro-migration” o...
Authors: Katie J. Harrington, Suzan Pole-Evans, Micky Reeves, Marc Bechard, Melissa Bobowski, David R. Barber, Kalinka Rexer-Huber, Nicolas Lecomte and Keith L. Bildstein
Albatrosses and other large seabirds use dynamic soaring to gain sufficient energy from the wind to travel large distances rapidly and with little apparent effort. The recent development of miniature bird-born...
Authors: Philip L. Richardson, Ewan D. Wakefield and Richard A. Phillips
