Key questions in marine megafauna movement ecology
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posted on 2024-06-03, 20:48authored byGraeme HaysGraeme Hays, LC Ferreira, AMM Sequeira, MG Meekan, CM Duarte, H Bailey, F Bailleul, WD Bowen, MJ Caley, DP Costa, VM Eguíluz, S Fossette, AS Friedlaender, N Gales, AC Gleiss, J Gunn, R Harcourt, EL Hazen, MR Heithaus, M Heupel, K Holland, M Horning, I Jonsen, GL Kooyman, CG Lowe, PT Madsen, H Marsh, RA Phillips, D Righton, Y Ropert-Coudert, K Sato, SA Shaffer, CA Simpfendorfer, DW Sims, G Skomal, A Takahashi, PN Trathan, M Wikelski, JN Womble, M Thums
It is a golden age for animal movement studies and so an opportune time to assess priorities for future work. We assembled 40 experts to identify key questions in this field, focussing on marine megafauna, which include a broad range of birds, mammals, reptiles, and fish. Research on these taxa has both underpinned many of the recent technical developments and led to fundamental discoveries in the field. We show that the questions have broad applicability to other taxa, including terrestrial animals, flying insects, and swimming invertebrates, and, as such, this exercise provides a useful roadmap for targeted deployments and data syntheses that should advance the field of movement ecology.
History
Journal
Trends in ecology and evolution
Volume
31
Pagination
463-475
Location
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
ISSN
0169-5347
eISSN
1872-8383
Language
eng
Publication classification
C Journal article, C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal