Energy availability, spatio-temporal variability and implications for animal ecology

Global environmental change, through anthropogenic activities and climatic
changes, is promoting broad-scale alterations to energy availability across
the world’s ecosystems. However, spatio-temporal variation in available energy
is a key driver of animals’ life histories, movement patterns and abundance,
thus shaping the global distribution of individuals and species. As such, there is
an increasing need to understand how and where changes to energy availability
will produce the greatest impacts on animal ecology, and ultimately on the
distribution of biodiversity.