Emerging perspectives on resource tracking and animal movement ecology

B Abrahms, EO Aikens, JB Armstrong… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
Resource tracking, where animals increase energy gain by moving to track phenological
variation in resources across space, is emerging as a fundamental attribute of animal …

Viewing animal migration through a social lens

EO Aikens, ID Bontekoe, L Blumenstiel… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
Evidence of social learning is growing across the animal kingdom. Researchers have long
hypothesized that social interactions play a key role in many animal migrations, but strong …

Drivers of site fidelity in ungulates

TA Morrison, JA Merkle, JGC Hopcraft… - Journal of animal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
While the tendency to return to previously visited locations—termed 'site fidelity'—is common
in animals, the cause of this behaviour is not well understood. One hypothesis is that site …

Conserving transboundary wildlife migrations: recent insights from the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

AD Middleton, H Sawyer, JA Merkle… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Animal migrations are ecologically, culturally, and economically important. Ungulate
populations in many parts of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas migrate long distances …

Migrating mule deer compensate en route for phenological mismatches

AC Ortega, EO Aikens, JA Merkle, KL Monteith… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Billions of animals migrate to track seasonal pulses in resources. Optimally timing migration
is a key strategy, yet the ability of animals to compensate for phenological mismatches en …

Wildlife migrations highlight importance of both private lands and protected areas in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

LC Gigliotti, W Xu, GR Zuckerman, MP Atwood… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Formally protected areas are an important component of wildlife conservation, but face
limitations in their effectiveness for migratory species. Improved stewardship of working …

Introduction of an automatic and open‐source radio‐tracking system for small animals

J Gottwald, R Zeidler, N Friess… - Methods in Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Movement ecology of small wild animals is often reliant on radio‐tracking methods due to
the size and weight restrictions of available transmitters. In manual radio telemetry, large …

Migratory disturbance thresholds with mule deer and energy development

H Sawyer, MS Lambert… - The Journal of Wildlife …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Fine‐scale movement data has transformed our knowledge of ungulate migration ecology
and now provides accurate, spatially explicit maps of migratory routes that can inform …

Animal-mediated plant niche tracking in a changing climate

TA Nuñez, LR Prugh, JHR Lambers - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - cell.com
Over half of plant species are animal-dispersed, and our understanding of how animals can
help plants move in response to climate change–a process known as niche tracking–is …