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Movement pattern variations are reflective of behavioural switches, likely associated with different life history traits in response to the animals’ abiotic and biotic environment. Detecting these can provide ...
Movement Ecology 2017 5:20
Published on: 22 September 2017
Methodology Article
With decreasing costs of GPS telemetry devices, data repositories of animal movement paths are increasing almost exponentially in size. A series of complex statistical tools have been developed in conjunction ...
Movement Ecology 2017 5:19
Published on: 6 September 2017
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In marine pelagic ecosystems, the spatial distribution of biomass is heterogeneous and dynamic. At large scales, physical processes are the main driving forces of biomass distribution. At fine scales, both bio...
Movement Ecology 2017 5:18
Published on: 31 August 2017
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For most Afro-Palearctic migrants, particularly small songbirds, spatiotemporal migration schedules and migratory connectivity remain poorly understood. We mapped migration from breeding through winter of one ...
Movement Ecology 2017 5:17
Published on: 30 August 2017
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Blue sharks (Prionace glauca) are among the most abundant and widely distributed of oceanic elasmobranchs. Millions are taken annually in pelagic longline fisheries and comprise the highest component of auctioned...
Movement Ecology 2017 5:16
Published on: 18 July 2017
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Regional scale movement patterns of songbirds are poorly known largely due to difficulties tracking small organisms at broad scales. Using an array of over 100 automated radio telemetry towers, we followed Bla...
Movement Ecology 2017 5:15
Published on: 3 July 2017
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The movement behavior of an animal is determined by extrinsic and intrinsic factors that operate at multiple spatio-temporal scales, yet much of our knowledge of animal movement comes from studies that examine...
Movement Ecology 2017 5:14
Published on: 15 June 2017
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Because empirical studies of animal movement are most-often site- and species-specific, we lack understanding of the level of consistency in movement patterns across diverse taxa, as well as a framework for qu...
Movement Ecology 2017 5:12
Published on: 1 June 2017
Methodology Article
Continuous time movement models resolve many of the problems with scaling, sampling, and interpretation that affect discrete movement models. They can, however, be challenging to estimate, have been presented ...
Movement Ecology 2017 5:13
Published on: 10 May 2017
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Quantifying individual variability in movement behavior is critical to understanding population-level patterns in animals. Here, we explore intraspecific variation in movement strategies of bald eagles (Haliaeetu...
Movement Ecology 2017 5:9
Published on: 5 May 2017
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Humpback whales are known to undertake long-distance migration between feeding and breeding sites, but their movement behavior within their breeding range is still poorly known. Satellite telemetry was used to...
Movement Ecology 2017 5:11
Published on: 1 May 2017
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In species with biparental care both members of the breeding pair cooperate to raise the offspring either by assisting each other in every reproductive task or by specializing in different ones. The latter cas...
Movement Ecology 2017 5:8
Published on: 25 April 2017
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Spacing patterns mediate competitive interactions between conspecifics, ultimately increasing fitness. The degree of territorial overlap between neighbouring African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) packs varies greatly,...
Movement Ecology 2017 5:10
Published on: 15 April 2017
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Selective pressures that occur during long-distance migration can influence morphological traits across a range of taxa. In flying insects, selection should favour individuals that have wing morphologies that ...
Movement Ecology 2017 5:7
Published on: 5 April 2017
Methodology article
Accelerometers are powerful sensors in many bio-logging devices, and are increasingly allowing researchers to investigate the performance, behaviour, energy expenditure and even state, of free-living animals. ...
Movement Ecology 2017 5:6
Published on: 27 March 2017
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Tortoises (Testudinidae) occur in a wide range of environments, providing important ecosystem functions, such as seed dispersal and refuge in the form of burrows. Tortoise movement has previously been shown to...
Movement Ecology 2017 5:5
Published on: 20 March 2017
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Ungulate movements are influenced by a variety of biotic and abiotic factors, which may affect connectivity between key resource areas and seasonal ranges. In northwestern Alaska, one important question regard...
Movement Ecology 2017 5:4
Published on: 1 March 2017
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We sought to quantitatively describe the fine-scale foraging behavior of northern resident killer whales (Orcinus orca), a population of fish-eating killer whales that feeds almost exclusively on Pacific salmon (
Movement Ecology 2017 5:3
Published on: 20 February 2017
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Movement behaviour is fundamental to the ecology of animals and their interactions with other organisms, and as such contributes to ecosystem dynamics. Waterfowl are key players in ecological processes in wetl...
Movement Ecology 2017 5:2
Published on: 1 February 2017
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Clustering time-series data into discrete groups can improve prediction and provide insight into the nature of underlying, unobservable states of the system. However, temporal variation in probabilities of gro...
Movement Ecology 2017 5:1
Published on: 26 January 2017
Methodology article
The use of light level loggers (geolocators) to understand movements and distributions in terrestrial and marine vertebrates, particularly during the non-breeding period, has increased dramatically in recent y...
Movement Ecology 2016 4:26
Published on: 18 November 2016
Review
In the last thirty years, the emergence and progression of biologging technology has led to great advances in marine predator ecology. Large databases of location and dive observations from biologging devices ...
Movement Ecology 2016 4:25
Published on: 26 October 2016
Review
Most songbird migrants travel between their breeding areas and wintering grounds by a series of nocturnal flights. The exact nocturnal departure time for these flights varies considerably between individuals e...
Movement Ecology 2016 4:24
Published on: 17 October 2016
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The juvenile stage of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) can last for decades. In the North Pacific Ocean, much is known about their seasonal movements in relation to pelagic habitat, yet understanding thei...
Movement Ecology 2016 4:23
Published on: 3 October 2016
Methodology article
We are increasingly using recording devices with multiple sensors operating at high frequencies to produce large volumes of data which are problematic to interpret. A particularly challenging example comes fro...
Movement Ecology 2016 4:22
Published on: 23 September 2016
