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Hays, Graeme C.Ferreira, Luciana C.
Sequeira, Ana M. M.

Meekan, Mark G.
Duarte, Carlos M.

Bailey, Helen
Bailleul, Fred
Bowen, W. Don
Caley, M. Julian
Costa, Daniel P.
Eguíluz, Victor M.
Fossette, Sabrina
Friedlaender, Ari S.
Gales, Nick
Gleiss, Adrian C.
Gunn, John
Harcourt, Rob
Hazen, Elliott L.
Heithaus, Michael R.
Heupel, Michelle
Holland, Kim
Horning, Markus
Jonsen, Ian
Kooyman, Gerald L.
Lowe, Christopher G.
Madsen, Peter T.
Marsh, Helene
Phillips, Richard A.
Righton, David
Ropert-Coudert, Yan
Sato, Katsufumi
Shaffer, Scott A.
Simpfendorfer, Colin A.
Sims, David W.
Skomal, Gregory
Takahashi, Akinori
Trathan, Philip N.
Wikelski, Martin
Womble, Jamie N.
Thums, Michele
KAUST Department
Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) DivisionMarine Science Program
Red Sea Research Center (RSRC)
Date
2016-03-12Online Publication Date
2016-03-12Print Publication Date
2016-06Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/621775
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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 marine megafauna, which include a broad range of birds, mammals, reptiles, and fish. Research on these taxa has both underpinned many of the recent technical developments and led to fundamental discoveries in the field. We show that the questions have broad applicability to other taxa, including terrestrial animals, flying insects, and swimming invertebrates, and, as such, this exercise provides a useful roadmap for targeted deployments and data syntheses that should advance the field of movement ecology. Technical advances make this an exciting time for animal movement studies, with a range of small, reliable data-loggers and transmitters that can record horizontal and vertical movements as well as aspects of physiology and reproductive biology.Forty experts identified key questions in the field of movement ecology.Questions have broad applicability across species, habitats, and spatial scales, and apply to animals in both marine and terrestrial habitats as well as both vertebrates and invertebrates, including birds, mammals, reptiles, fish, insects, and plankton. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd.Citation
Hays GC, Ferreira LC, Sequeira AMM, Meekan MG, Duarte CM, et al. (2016) Key Questions in Marine Megafauna Movement Ecology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 31: 463–475. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2016.02.015.Sponsors
G.C.H. conceived the study at a workshop organized by M.T., A.M.M.S., M.M., V.M.E., and C.M.D. G.C.H. assembled the questions with help from L.C.F., M.T., A.M.M.S., and M.M. All authors submitted questions and voted on the assembled questions. G.C.H. wrote the manuscript with W.D.B., Y.R.C., E.L.H., M.M., A.M.M.S., D.W.S., A.T., L.C.F., M.T., P.N.T., and P.T.M. All authors commented on drafts. Workshop funding was granted to M.T., A.M.M.S., and C.M.D. by the UWA Oceans Institute, the Australian Institute of Marine Science, and the Office of Sponsored Research at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).Publisher
Elsevier BVJournal
Trends in Ecology & EvolutionPubMed ID
26979550ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.tree.2016.02.015
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