Putting the ecology back into movement ecology
Speaker:
John Fryxell, University of Guelph
Date and Time:
Thursday, June 9, 2016 - 3:40pm to 4:30pm
Abstract:
In this lecture I will offer a highly idiosyncratic review of the rapidly-evolving field of animal movement, with twin objectives of (i) trying to anticipate where this field is most rapidly evolving and (ii) identifying where the most interesting, yet important, unresolved issues remain. Some of this will be framed around work conducted by my lab and a number of others on terrestrial systems, as examples of the exciting new opportunities afforded by technological and statistical advances as well as the typical challenges faced under field conditions. I will emphasize how rarely ecological constraints are incorporated into movement models and even more rarely how movement is incorporated into models of population interactions.