Radio telemetry has been widely used to study the space use and movement behaviour of
vertebrates, but transmitter sizes have only recently become small enough to allow tracking …

General principles about the consequences of seed dispersal by animals for the structure
and dynamics of plant populations and communities remain elusive. This is in part because …

Biodiversity is organised into complex ecological networks of interacting species in local
ecosystems, but our knowledge about the effects of habitat fragmentation on such systems …

Each year, trillions of insects make long-range seasonal migrations. These movements are
relatively well understood at a population level, but how individual insects achieve them …

Insects are the most ecologically important multicellular heterotrophs in terrestrial systems.
They play critical roles in ecological food webs, remain devastating agricultural and medical …

Background Accurate estimates of movement behavior and distances travelled by animals
are difficult to obtain, especially for small-bodied insects where transmitter weights have …

Pollinator behaviour has profound effects on plant mating. Pollinators are predicted to
minimise energetic costs during foraging bouts by moving between nearby flowers …

Central place foragers, such as pollinating bees, typically develop circuits (traplines) to visit
multiple foraging sites in a manner that minimizes overall travel distance. Despite being …

Animals collecting resources that replenish over time often visit patches in predictable
sequences called traplines. Despite the widespread nature of this strategy, we still know little …

Highlights•Ecologists need technological solutions for acquiring large datasets in the
field.•Field-deployed e-ecology tools are constrained by power draw and reliability …