Spatial memory and animal movement

WF Fagan, MA Lewis, M Auger‐Méthé, T Avgar… - Ecology …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Memory is critical to understanding animal movement but has proven challenging to study.
Advances in animal tracking technology, theoretical movement models and cognitive …

Movement ecology of amphibians: a missing component for understanding population declines

SE Pittman, MS Osbourn, RD Semlitsch - Biological Conservation, 2014 - Elsevier
Movement is a fundamental process of all organisms that has strong consequences for
individual fitness, gene flow, natural selection, adaptation, population persistence …

Global shark currency: the distribution, frequency, and economic value of shark ecotourism

AJ Gallagher, N Hammerschlag - Current Issues in Tourism, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Ecotourism represents a highly popularised activity which has exhibited global growth in
recent years. In the present paper, we examine the distribution, frequency, and economic …

Biological effects, conservation potential, and research priorities of shark diving tourism

AJ Gallagher, GMS Vianna, YP Papastamatiou… - Biological …, 2015 - Elsevier
Shark diving tourism is a burgeoning, global industry. The growing perception that sharks
can be worth more alive for tourism than dead in a fish market has become one of the …

Telemetry and random‐walk models reveal complex patterns of partial migration in a large marine predator

YP Papastamatiou, CG Meyer, F Carvalho, JJ Dale… - Ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Animals are often faced with complex movement decisions, particularly those that involve
long‐distance dispersal. Partial migrations, ubiquitous among all groups of vertebrates, are …

Elucidating the significance of spatial memory on movement decisions by African savannah elephants using state–space models

L Polansky, W Kilian… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Spatial memory facilitates resource acquisition where resources are patchy, but how it
influences movement behaviour of wide-ranging species remains to be resolved. We …

Don't bite the hand that feeds: assessing ecological impacts of provisioning ecotourism on an apex marine predator

N Hammerschlag, AJ Gallagher, J Wester… - Functional …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
There has been considerable debate over the past decade with respect to wildlife
provisioning, especially resultant behavioural changes that may impact the ecological …

Direct genetic evidence for reproductive philopatry and associated fine‐scale migrations in female blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus) in French …

J Mourier, S Planes - Molecular Ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation of top predators has been emphasized as essential in an ecosystem due to
their role in trophic chain regulation. Optimizing conservation strategies for these …

Learning and animal movement

MA Lewis, WF Fagan, M Auger-Méthé… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Integrating diverse concepts from animal behavior, movement ecology, and machine
learning, we develop an overview of the ecology of learning and animal movement …

Not worth the risk: apex predators suppress herbivory on coral reefs

JR Rizzari, AJ Frisch, AS Hoey, MI McCormick - Oikos, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Apex predators are known to exert strong ecological effects, either through direct or indirect
predator–prey interactions. Indirect interactions have the potential to influence ecological …