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The Movement Ecology Special Feature

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This special feature (SF), published in the 105/49 (9 December, 2008) issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), includes 13 contributions and represents the main product of an international project held at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) in Jerusalem from 2006 to 2007 (no. 105 in the list - http://www.as.huji.ac.il/research_groups/past.php). The first contribution is a short editorial introductory piece (1) that briefly presents the main motivations for the formulation of the new movement ecology conceptual framework, outlines the framework’s essentials, and describes the expected applications and merits of this framework. The second paper presents the suggested movement ecology paradigm, and places it in the context of the exiting paradigms used to study organismal movement (2). The third contribution is a comprehensive review of the existing literature, in which the suggested framework is used to highlight gaps in the current knowledge in the field (3). Other contributions are also coauthored by IAS group members and illustrate applications of the proposed conceptual framework for further theoretical developments (4) and for various taxonomic groups and movement modes. Examples include seed dispersal (5), foraging and other movements of elephants (6) and dispersal of lynx (7). Six additional contributions were solicited from other research groups to broaden the scope of this collection. These contributions include a theoretical paper on the link between foraging behavior and the statistical properties of movement paths (8) and five empirical studies on the dispersal of plants (9) and butterflies (10), navigation of salmon and sea turtles (11), migration of vultures (12), and dispersal, foraging and other movements of elks (13). Holyoak et al. (3) estimate that between 1997 and 2006, approximately 26,000 papers referred to movement. This extremely broad scope of movement ecology means that the fairly diverse coverage of movement types and taxonomic groups in this SF is inevitably incomplete. To foster integration, the authors were requested to place their works in the context of the proposed unifying theme (2) and discuss the pros and cons of this approach.
 
References
  1. Nathan R (2008) An emerging movement ecology paradigm. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105:19050–19051.
  2. Nathan R et al. (2008) A movement ecology paradigm for unifying organismal movement research. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105:19052–19059.
  3. Holyoak M, Casagrandi R, Nathan R, Revilla E, Spiegel O (2008) Trends and missing parts in the study of movement ecology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105:19060–19065.
  4. Getz WM, Saltz D (2008) A framework for generating and analyzing movement paths on ecological landscapes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105:19066–19071.
  5. Wright SJ et al. (2008) Understanding strategies for seed dispersal by wind under contrasting atmospheric conditions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105:19084–19089.
  6. Wittemyer G, Polansky L, Douglas-Hamilton I, Getz WM (2008) Disentangling the effects of forage, social rank, and risk on movement autocorrelation of elephants using Fourier and wavelet analyses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105:19108–19113.
  7. Revilla E, Wiegand T (2008) Individual movement behavior, matrix heterogeneity, and the dynamics of spatially structured populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105:19120–5.
  8. Bartumeus F, Levin S a (2008) Fractal reorientation clocks: Linking animal behavior to statistical patterns of search. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105:19072–19077.
  9. Damschen EI et al. (2008) The movement ecology and dynamics of plant communities in fragmented landscapes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105:19078–19083.
  10. Ovaskainen O et al. (2008) Tracking butterfly movements with harmonic radar reveals an effect of population age on movement distance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105:19090–19095.
  11. Lohmann KJ, Putman NF, Lohmann CMF (2008) Geomagnetic imprinting: A unifying hypothesis of long-distance natal homing in salmon and sea turtles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105:19096–19101.
  12. Mandel JT, Bildstein KL, Bohrer G, Winkler DW (2008) Movement ecology of migration in turkey vultures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105:19102–19107.
  13. Fryxell JM et al. (2008) Multiple movement modes by large herbivores at multiple spatiotemporal scales. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105:19114–19119.

 

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