Recent advances in animal tracking reveal that many species display irregular movements
that do not fall into classical categories of movement patterns such as range residency or …

A revised set of propositions about ecology in arid Australia is presented, based on research
literature since publication of Stafford Smith and Morton (1990). Fourteen propositions distil …

Migration, broadly defined as directional movement to take advantage of spatially distributed
resources, is a dramatic behaviour and an important component of many life histories that …

Ecology Letters (2011) Abstract Soaring birds migrate in massive numbers worldwide.
These migrations are complex and dynamic phenomena, strongly influenced by …

Migratory vertebrates adjust their movements in response to environmental change.
Throughout their migrations, they gather information, integrate environmental and internal …

Background Antibiotic resistance is rendering common bacterial infections untreatable.
Wildlife can incorporate and disperse antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the environment, such …

Background Accurate predictions of species distributions are essential for climate change
impact assessments. However the standard practice of using long-term climate averages to …

Most ecological and evolutionary processes are thought to critically depend on dispersal
and individual movement but there is little empirical information on the movement strategies …

The sheer beauty and impressiveness of animal migrations have long puzzled observers
and raised the questions of how these animals find their way, what initiates their migrations …

Australia's waterbirds are mostly nomadic, capitalising on highly variable aquatic resources
in the arid interior (70% of the continent) for feeding and breeding. Waterbirds, unlike most …