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Key questions in marine megafauna movement ecology

journal contribution
posted on 2016-06-01, 00:00 authored by Graeme HaysGraeme Hays, L C Ferreira, A M M Sequeira, M G Meekan, C M Duarte, H Bailey, F Bailleul, W D Bowen, M J Caley, D P Costa, V M Eguíluz, S Fossette, A S Friedlaender, N Gales, A C Gleiss, J Gunn, R Harcourt, E L Hazen, M R Heithaus, M Heupel, K Holland, M Horning, I Jonsen, G L Kooyman, C G Lowe, P T Madsen, H Marsh, R A Phillips, D Righton, Y Ropert-Coudert, K Sato, S A Shaffer, C A Simpfendorfer, D W Sims, G Skomal, A Takahashi, P N Trathan, M Wikelski, J N 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

Issue

6

Pagination

463 - 475

Publisher

Elsevier

Location

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

ISSN

1872-8383

eISSN

1872-8383

Language

eng

Publication classification

C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2016, Elsevier