Big-data approaches lead to an increased understanding of the ecology of animal movement

R Nathan, CT Monk, R Arlinghaus, T Adam, J Alós… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Understanding animal movement is essential to elucidate how animals interact, survive, and
thrive in a changing world. Recent technological advances in data collection and …

Animal tracking moves community ecology: Opportunities and challenges

R Costa‐Pereira, RJ Moll, BR Jesmer… - Journal of Animal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Individual decisions regarding how, why and when organisms interact with one another and
with their environment scale up to shape patterns and processes in communities. Recent …

Fear of large carnivores amplifies human-caused mortality for mesopredators

LR Prugh, CX Cunningham, RM Windell, BN Kertson… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The challenge that large carnivores face in coexisting with humans calls into question their
ability to carry out critical ecosystem functions such as mesopredator suppression outside …

Spatial memory predicts home range size and predation risk in pheasants

RJP Heathcote, MA Whiteside… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Most animals confine their activities to a discrete home range, long assumed to reflect the
fitness benefits of obtaining spatial knowledge about the landscape. However, few empirical …

Movement predictability of individual barn owls facilitates estimation of home range size and survival

S Cain, T Solomon, Y Leshem, S Toledo, E Arnon… - Movement Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Background There is growing attention to individuality in movement, its causes and
consequences. Similarly to other well-established personality traits (eg, boldness or …

A guide to sampling design for GPS‐based studies of animal societies

P He, JA Klarevas‐Irby, D Papageorgiou… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
GPS‐based tracking is widely used for studying wild social animals. Much like traditional
observational methods, using GPS devices requires making a number of decisions about …

Phase transition in a non-markovian animal exploration model with preferential returns

O Vilk, D Campos, V Méndez, E Lourie, R Nathan… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
We study a non-Markovian and nonstationary model of animal mobility incorporating both
exploration and memory in the form of preferential returns. Exact results for the probability of …

Mapping the “catscape” formed by a population of pet cats with outdoor access

R Bischof, NR Hansen, ØS Nyheim, A Kisen… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
The domestic cat (Felis catus) is among the most popular companion animals and most
abundant carnivores globally. It is also a pet with an immense ecological footprint because …

Validating ATLAS: A regional‐scale high‐throughput tracking system

CE Beardsworth, E Gobbens… - Methods in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fine‐scale tracking of animal movement is important to understand the proximate
mechanisms of animal behaviour. The reverse‐GPS system—ATLAS—uses inexpensive …

Categorizing the geometry of animal diel movement patterns with examples from high-resolution barn owl tracking

L Luisa Vissat, S Cain, S Toledo, O Spiegel, WM Getz - Movement ecology, 2023 - Springer
Background Movement is central to understanding the ecology of animals. The most robustly
definable segments of an individual's lifetime track are its diel activity routines (DARs). This …