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  1. To understand life-history strategies in migratory bird species, we should focus on migration behaviour and possible carry-over effects on both population and individual level. Tracking devices are useful tool...

    Authors: Arndt H. J. Wellbrock and Klaudia Witte
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:58
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  2. Species translocation is a popular approach in contemporary ecological restoration and rewilding. Improving the efficacy of conservation translocation programmes requires a combination of robust data from comp...

    Authors: Simon C. R. Lee, David J. Hodgson and Stuart Bearhop
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:57
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  4. Long-distance migratory birds undergo complex annual cycles during which they must adjust their behaviour according to the needs and conditions encountered throughout the year. Yet, variation in activity throu...

    Authors: Pablo Macías-Torres, Thomas Alerstam, Arne Andersson, Johan Bäckman, Kasper Thorup, Anders P. Tøttrup and Sissel Sjöberg
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:55
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  5. In warm regions or seasons of the year, the planetary boundary layer is occupied by a huge variety and quantity of insects, but the southward migration of insects (in East Asia) in autumn is still poorly under...

    Authors: Jian Zhu, Xiao Chen, Jie Liu, Yuying Jiang, Fajun Chen, Jiahao Lu, Hui Chen, Baoping Zhai, Don R. Reynolds, Jason W. Chapman and Gao Hu
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:54
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  6. Indirect interactions between individual solitary mammals, such as the giant panda, are often overlooked because of their nature, yet are important for maintaining the necessary sociality in solitary species.

    Authors: Wenliang Zhou, Meng Wang, Yingjie Ma, Le Wang, Yibo Hu, Fuwen Wei and Yonggang Nie
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:53
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  7. The movement extent of mammals is influenced by human-modified areas, which can affect population demographics. Understanding how human infrastructure influences movement at different life stages is important ...

    Authors: N. H. Thorsen, J. E. Hansen, O.-G. Støen, J. Kindberg, A. Zedrosser and S. C. Frank
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:52
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  8. The spatiotemporal organization of migratory routes of long-distance migrants results from trade-offs between minimizing the journey length and en route risk of migration-related mortality, which may be reduced b...

    Authors: Mattia Pancerasa, Roberto Ambrosini, Andrea Romano, Diego Rubolini, David W. Winkler and Renato Casagrandi
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:51
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  9. Change in behavior is one of the earliest responses to variation in habitat suitability. It is therefore important to understand the conditions that promote different behaviors, particularly in areas undergoin...

    Authors: Ron R. Togunov, Andrew E. Derocher, Nicholas J. Lunn and Marie Auger-Méthé
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:50
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  10. The home range of an animal is determined by its ecological requirements, and these may vary depending on many intrinsic and extrinsic factors, which are ultimately driven by food resources. Investigating the ...

    Authors: Inmaculada Abril-Colón, Juan Carlos Alonso, Carlos Palacín, Alberto Ucero and José Manuel Álvarez-Martínez
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:49
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  11. Spawning migrations are a widespread phenomenon among fishes, often occurring in response to environmental conditions prompting movement into reproductive habitats (migratory cues). However, for many species, ...

    Authors: Jordan A. Massie, Rolando O. Santos, Ryan J. Rezek, W. Ryan James, Natasha M. Viadero, Ross E. Boucek, David A. Blewett, Alexis A. Trotter, Philip W. Stevens and Jennifer S. Rehage
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:48
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  12. Reintroduced animals—especially those raised in captivity—are faced with the unique challenge of navigating a wholly unfamiliar environment, and often make erratic or extensive movements after release. Naïveté...

    Authors: M. M. Majaliwa, L. F. Hughey, J. A. Stabach, M. Songer, K. Whyle, A. E. A. Alhashmi, M. Al Remeithi, R. Pusey, H. A. Chaibo, A. Ngari Walsoumon, M. Hassan Hatcha, T. Wacher, C. Ngaba, J. Newby, P. Leimgruber and K. Mertes
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:47
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  13. Migration is one of the most physical and energetically demanding periods in an individual bird’s life. The composition of the bird’s gut or cloacal microbiota can temporarily change during migration, likely d...

    Authors: Nikki Thie, Ammon Corl, Sondra Turjeman, Ron Efrat, Pauline L. Kamath, Wayne M. Getz, Rauri C. K. Bowie and Ran Nathan
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:46
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  14. Homeothermic marine animals in Polar Regions face an energetic bottleneck in winter. The challenges of short days and cold temperatures are exacerbated for flying seabirds with small body size and limited fat ...

    Authors: Allison Patterson, H. Grant Gilchrist, Gregory J. Robertson, April Hedd, David A. Fifield and Kyle H. Elliott
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:45
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  15. The western sandpiper (Calidris mauri) is an early southbound migrant species in North America. The ‘peregrine avoidance’ hypothesis proposes that this timing evolved to reduce exposure to their main predator, th...

    Authors: Ronald C. Ydenberg
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:44
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  16. Dispersal is a fundamental process to animal population dynamics and gene flow. In white-tailed deer (WTD; Odocoileus virginianus), dispersal also presents an increasingly relevant risk for the spread of infectio...

    Authors: Marie L. J. Gilbertson, Alison C. Ketz, Matthew Hunsaker, Dana Jarosinski, Wesley Ellarson, Daniel P. Walsh, Daniel J. Storm and Wendy C. Turner
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:43
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  17. Studies of animal behaviour, ecology and physiology are continuously benefitting from progressing biologging techniques, including the collection of accelerometer data to infer animal behaviours and energy exp...

    Authors: Hui Yu, Chris A.J. Klaassen, Jian Deng, Trent Leen, Guozheng Li and Marcel Klaassen
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:42
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  18. Flight performance and dispersal behaviour can differ between sexes, resulting in sex-biased dispersal. The primary sex ratio of populations may also explain dispersal bias between sexes, as this bias may evol...

    Authors: Sandra Martínez-Pérez, Eduardo Galante and Estefanía Micó
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:41
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  20. “Central-place foragers” are constrained in their habitat selection and foraging range by the frequency with which they need to return to a central place. For example, chick-rearing songbirds that must feed th...

    Authors: Kristen M. Lalla, Kevin C. Fraser, Barbara Frei, Jason D. Fischer, Joe Siegrist, James D. Ray, Mario Cohn-Haft and Kyle H. Elliott
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:39
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  21. Scatter-hoarding birds provide effective long-distance seed dispersal for plants. Transporting seeds far promotes population spread, colonization of new areas, and connectivity between populations. However, wh...

    Authors: Marjorie C. Sorensen, Thomas Mueller, Isabel Donoso, Valentin Graf, Dominik Merges, Marco Vanoni, Wolfgang Fiedler and Eike Lena Neuschulz
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:38
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  22. Anthropogenic linear features change the behavior and selection patterns of species, which must adapt to these ever-increasing features on the landscape. Roads are a well-studied linear feature that alter the ...

    Authors: Paul F. Jones, Andrew F. Jakes, Scott E. Vegter and Mike S. Verhage
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:37
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  24. Anthropogenic food sources (AFSs) are widespread in human-transformed landscapes and the current scale at which they occur drives ecological change at the individual, population, and community levels. AFSs are...

    Authors: Varalika Jain, Thomas Bugnyar, Susan J. Cunningham, Mario Gallego-Abenza, Matthias-Claudio Loretto and Petra Sumasgutner
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:35
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  25. Migration is a widespread strategy among ungulates to cope with seasonality. Phenology, especially in seasonally snow-covered landscapes featuring “white waves” of snow accumulation and “green waves” of plant ...

    Authors: Malena Candino, Emiliano Donadio and Jonathan N. Pauli
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:34
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  26. Animal personality has emerged as a key concept in behavioral ecology. While many studies have demonstrated the influence of personality traits on behavioral patterns, its quantification, especially in wild an...

    Authors: Jonas Stiegler, Alisa Lins, Melanie Dammhahn, Stephanie Kramer-Schadt, Sylvia Ortmann and Niels Blaum
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:33
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  28. Movement behavior is an important contributor to habitat selection and its incorporation in disease risk models has been somewhat neglected. The habitat preferences of host individuals affect their probability...

    Authors: Eric R. Dougherty, Dana P. Seidel, Jason K. Blackburn, Wendy C. Turner and Wayne M. Getz
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:31
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Movement Ecology 2022 10:36

  29. Bio-logging and animal tracking datasets continuously grow in volume and complexity, documenting animal behaviour and ecology in unprecedented extent and detail, but greatly increasing the challenge of extract...

    Authors: Andrea Kölzsch, Sarah C. Davidson, Dominik Gauggel, Clemens Hahn, Julian Hirt, Roland Kays, Ilona Lang, Ashley Lohr, Benedict Russell, Anne K. Scharf, Gabriel Schneider, Candace M. Vinciguerra, Martin Wikelski and Kamran Safi
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:30
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  30. As a widely distributed and aerial migratory bird, the Common Swift (Apus apus) flies over a wide geographic range in Eurasia and Africa during migration. Although some studies have revealed the migration routes ...

    Authors: Yanyan Zhao, Xinru Zhao, Lan Wu, Tong Mu, Fang Yu, Lyndon Kearsley, Xuan Liang, Jianping Fu, Xiaoru Hou, Peng Peng, Xiaoyang Li, Tao Zhang, Su Yan, Dick Newell, Chris M. Hewson, Terry Townshend…
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:29
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  31. Migration phenology is shifting for many long-distance migrants due to global climate change, however the timing and duration of migration may influence the environmental conditions individuals encounter, with...

    Authors: Marta Acácio, Inês Catry, Andrea Soriano-Redondo, João Paulo Silva, Philip W. Atkinson and Aldina M. A. Franco
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:28
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  33. Movement is fundamental to life, shaping population dynamics, biodiversity patterns, and ecosystem structure. In 2008, the movement ecology framework (MEF Nathan et al. in PNAS 105(49):19052–19059, 2008) intro...

    Authors: Rocío Joo, Simona Picardi, Matthew E. Boone, Thomas A. Clay, Samantha C. Patrick, Vilma S. Romero-Romero and Mathieu Basille
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:26
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  35. Authors: Anna M. Knochel, Nigel E. Hussey, Steven T. Kessel, Camrin D. Braun, Jesse E. M. Cochran, Graham Hill, Rebecca Klaus, Tarik Checkchak, Nasereldin M. Elamin El Hassen, Mohammed Younnis and Michael L. Berumen
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:24
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in Movement Ecology 2022 10:22

  36. Identifying animal behaviors, life history states, and movement patterns is a prerequisite for many animal behavior analyses and effective management of wildlife and habitats. Most approaches classify short-te...

    Authors: Cory Overton, Michael Casazza, Joseph Bretz, Fiona McDuie, Elliott Matchett, Desmond Mackell, Austen Lorenz, Andrea Mott, Mark Herzog and Josh Ackerman
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:23
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  37. Reef manta ray (Mobula alfredi) populations along the Northeastern African coastline are poorly studied. Identifying critical habitats for this species is essential for future research and conservation efforts. D...

    Authors: Anna M. Knochel, Nigel E. Hussey, Steven T. Kessel, Camrin D. Braun, Jesse E. M. Cochran, Graham Hill, Rebecca Klaus, Tarik Checkchak, Nasereldin M. Elamin El Hassen, Mohammed Younnis and Michael L. Berumen
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:22
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Movement Ecology 2022 10:24

  39. Wildlife conservation often focuses on establishing protected areas. However, these conservation zones are frequently established without adequate knowledge of the movement patterns of the species they are des...

    Authors: Meredith A. Semel, Heather N. Abernathy, Brandon P. Semel, Michael J. Cherry, Tsioriniaina J. C. Ratovoson and Ignacio T. Moore
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:20
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  40. Animals are important vectors for the dispersal of a wide variety of plant species, and thus play a key role in maintaining the health and biodiversity of natural ecosystems. On oceanic islands, flying-foxes a...

    Authors: Christopher M. Todd, David A. Westcott, John M. Martin, Karrie Rose, Adam McKeown, Jane Hall and Justin A. Welbergen
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:19
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  42. Global increases in human activity threaten connectivity of animal habitat and populations. Protection and restoration of wildlife habitat and movement corridors require robust models to forecast the effects o...

    Authors: Jesse Whittington, Mark Hebblewhite, Robin W. Baron, Adam T. Ford and John Paczkowski
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:17
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  43. Prey depletion is a threat to the world’s large carnivores, and is likely to affect subordinate competitors within the large carnivore guild disproportionately. African lions limit African wild dog populations...

    Authors: Ben Goodheart, Scott Creel, Milan A. Vinks, Kambwiri Banda, Johnathan Reyes de Merkle, Anna Kusler, Chase Dart, Kachama Banda, Matthew S. Becker, Peter Indala, Chuma Simukonda and Adrian Kaluka
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:16
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  44. Authors: Kirsty A. Franklin, Ken Norris, Jennifer A. Gill, Norman Ratcliffe, Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Lebrun, Simon J. Butler, Nik C. Cole, Carl G. Jones, Simeon Lisovski, Kevin Ruhomaun, Vikash Tatayah and Malcolm A. C. Nicoll
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:15
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in Movement Ecology 2022 10:13

  46. In migratory species, the extent of within- and between-individual variation in migratory strategies can influence potential rates and directions of responses to environmental changes. Quantifying this variati...

    Authors: Kirsty A. Franklin, Ken Norris, Jennifer A. Gill, Norman Ratcliffe, Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Lebrun, Simon J. Butler, Nik C. Cole, Carl G. Jones, Simeon Lisovski, Kevin Ruhomaun, Vikash Tatayah and Malcolm A. C. Nicoll
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:13
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Movement Ecology 2022 10:15

  47. Several migratory ungulates, including caribou, are dramatically declining. Caribou of the Barren-ground ecotype, which forms its own subspecies, are known to be mainly migratory. By contrast, within the Woodl...

    Authors: Jessica Theoret, Maria Cavedon, Troy Hegel, Dave Hervieux, Helen Schwantje, Robin Steenweg, Megan Watters and Marco Musiani
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:12
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  48. Conditions encountered en route can dramatically impact the energy that migratory species spend on movement. Migratory birds often manage energetic costs by adjusting their behavior in relation to wind conditions...

    Authors: Jennifer A. Linscott, Juan G. Navedo, Sarah J. Clements, Jason P. Loghry, Jorge Ruiz, Bart M. Ballard, Mitch D. Weegman and Nathan R. Senner
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:11
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  49. While Pace of Life Syndrome predicts behavioural differences between individuals with differential growth and survival, testing these predictions in nature is challenging due to difficulties with measuring ind...

    Authors: Graydon McKee, Rachael L. Hornsby, Friedrich Fischer, Erin S. Dunlop, Robert Mackereth, Thomas C. Pratt and Michael Rennie
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:10
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  50. Birds that forage while covering distance during migration should adjust traveling behaviors as the availability of foraging habitat changes. Particularly, the behavior of those species that depend on bodies o...

    Authors: C. Rueda-Uribe, U. Lötberg and S. Åkesson
    Citation: Movement Ecology 2022 10:9
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    The Publisher Correction to this article has been published in Movement Ecology 2022 10:27

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