• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements
  • Contributor: Tucker, Marlee A.; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin; Fagan, William F.; Fryxell, John M.; Van Moorter, Bram; Alberts, Susan C.; Ali, Abdullahi H.; Allen, Andrew M.; Attias, Nina; Avgar, Tal; Bartlam-Brooks, Hattie; Bayarbaatar, Buuveibaatar; Belant, Jerrold L.; Bertassoni, Alessandra; Beyer, Dean; Bidner, Laura; van Beest, Floris M.; Blake, Stephen; Blaum, Niels; Bracis, Chloe; Brown, Danielle; de Bruyn, P. J. Nico; Cagnacci, Francesca; Calabrese, Justin M.; [...]
  • imprint: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2018
  • Published in: Science
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1126/science.aam9712
  • ISSN: 0036-8075; 1095-9203
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  • Description: <jats:title>Restrictions on roaming</jats:title> <jats:p> Until the past century or so, the movement of wild animals was relatively unrestricted, and their travels contributed substantially to ecological processes. As humans have increasingly altered natural habitats, natural animal movements have been restricted. Tucker <jats:italic>et al.</jats:italic> examined GPS locations for more than 50 species. In general, animal movements were shorter in areas with high human impact, likely owing to changed behaviors and physical limitations. Besides affecting the species themselves, such changes could have wider effects by limiting the movement of nutrients and altering ecological interactions. </jats:p> <jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> , this issue p. <jats:related-article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="doi" issue="6374" page="466" related-article-type="in-this-issue" vol="359" xlink:href="10.1126/science.aam9712">466</jats:related-article> </jats:p>