Key questions in marine megafauna movement ecology

GC Hays, LC Ferreira, AMM Sequeira… - Trends in ecology & …, 2016 - cell.com
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 …

Long‐range seasonal migration in insects: mechanisms, evolutionary drivers and ecological consequences

JW Chapman, DR Reynolds, K Wilson - Ecology letters, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Myriad tiny insect species take to the air to engage in windborne migration, but entomology
also has its 'charismatic megafauna'of butterflies, large moths, dragonflies and locusts. The …

Efficient collective swimming by harnessing vortices through deep reinforcement learning

S Verma, G Novati… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Fish in schooling formations navigate complex flow fields replete with mechanical energy in
the vortex wakes of their companions. Their schooling behavior has been associated with …

Mass seasonal bioflows of high-flying insect migrants

G Hu, KS Lim, N Horvitz, SJ Clark, DR Reynolds… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Migrating animals have an impact on ecosystems directly via influxes of predators, prey, and
competitors and indirectly by vectoring nutrients, energy, and pathogens. Although linkages …

Prediction of migratory routes of the invasive fall armyworm in eastern China using a trajectory analytical approach

XJ Li, MF Wu, J Ma, BY Gao, QL Wu… - Pest Management …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND The fall armyworm (FAW), an invasive pest from the Americas, is rapidly
spreading through the Old World, and has recently invaded the Indochinese Peninsula and …

Energy landscapes shape animal movement ecology

ELC Shepard, RP Wilson, WG Rees… - The American …, 2013 - journals.uchicago.edu
The metabolic costs of animal movement have been studied extensively under laboratory
conditions, although frequently these are a poor approximation of the costs of operating in …

[HTML][HTML] Mass seasonal migrations of hoverflies provide extensive pollination and crop protection services

KR Wotton, B Gao, MHM Menz, RKA Morris, SG Ball… - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
Despite the fact that migratory insects dominate aerial bioflows in terms of diversity,
abundance, and biomass [1–6], the migration patterns of most species, and the effects of …

[HTML][HTML] The environmental-data automated track annotation (Env-DATA) system: linking animal tracks with environmental data

S Dodge, G Bohrer, R Weinzierl, SC Davidson… - Movement ecology, 2013 - Springer
Background The movement of animals is strongly influenced by external factors in their
surrounding environment such as weather, habitat types, and human land use. With …

Behavior of bats at wind turbines

PM Cryan, PM Gorresen, CD Hein… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Wind turbines are causing unprecedented numbers of bat fatalities. Many fatalities involve
tree-roosting bats, but reasons for this higher susceptibility remain unknown. To better …

Social learning of migratory performance

T Mueller, RB O'Hara, SJ Converse, RP Urbanek… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Successful bird migration can depend on individual learning, social learning, and innate
navigation programs. Using 8 years of data on migrating whooping cranes, we were able to …