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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
The behavioural ecology of animal movement: reflections upon potential synergies
Contributor:
Liedvogel, Miriam;
Chapman, Ben B.;
Muheim, Rachel;
Åkesson, Susanne
Published:
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2013
Published in:
Animal Migration, 1 (2013) 1, Seite 39-46
Language:
English
DOI:
10.2478/ami-2013-0002
ISSN:
2084-8838
Origination:
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Description:
Abstract Animal movement acts at multiple scales: it can shape the destiny ofindividuals and populations, govern community and ecosystem structure,and influence evolutionary processes and patterns of biodiversity. Recenttechnological advances, such as the revolutionary developments in trackingtechnology and remote sensing, provide fresh insights and the possibility tocollect detailed data on where and how animals travel through space, howthey react to and/or interact with their environment and conspecifics aswell as their predators and prey. Scientists from various disciplines rangingfrom physics to psychology develop and apply ever improving analyticaltechniques to observe, assess and archive animal movement across scales.As in any other field, standardising data collection is a key prerequisite inorder to combine and extend dataset collections, many of which may furtherbe utilized by behavioural ecologists to answer questions on the function andsignificance of animal movements. Large-scale manipulative experimentalapproaches have also shed new light on old questions in animal movement,and opened new and previously inaccessible perspectives to study animalmovement in the context of behavioural ecology. Animal movements areintrinsic to all behavioural processes, and analysis of movement phenomenawithin the framework of behavioural ecology has provided rich insights intothe mechanisms and functions of animal behavior for some decades. Weconvened an international symposium to reflect on the behavioural ecologyof animal movement, asking how these two related disciplines can producenew insights and synergies. Our symposium provided a platform that broughttogether a diverse range of researchers working on animal movementon different taxa and a range of spatial scales to discuss how behaviouralecology can integrate with the nascent discipline of movement ecology. Inthis short paper we summarise the key points from this meeting, and call fora renewed focus on the behavioural processes involved in the movements ofanimals.