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Tag Archives: Movement ecology

Navigating through the R packages for movement

January 17, 2020by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

In the biologging Special Issue of the journal, we have new Review paper lead by Rocío Joo on Navigating through the r packages for movement. Rocío is a movement statistician […]

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Light‐Level Geolocator Analyses: A user’s guide

January 14, 2020by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

In the biologging Special Issue of the journal, we have new ‘How to…’ paper lead by Simeon Lisovski from the Swiss Ornithological Institute on Light‐Level Geolocator Analyses. In this blog […]

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Biologging: squiggly lines, new methods and big ideas

August 29, 2018by Sarah Marley 1 Comment

The understanding of the interplay of movement, behaviour and physiology that biologging offers has applied relevance for a range of fields, including evolutionary ecology, wildlife conservation and behavioural ecology. In […]

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Defining a mating system of a cryptic deer species

August 22, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

The understanding of the interplay of movement, behaviour and physiology that biologging offers has applied relevance for a range of fields, including evolutionary ecology, wildlife conservation and behavioural ecology. In […]

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Biologging around the clock

August 15, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

The understanding of the interplay of movement, behaviour and physiology that biologging offers has applied relevance for a range of fields, including evolutionary ecology, wildlife conservation and behavioural ecology. In […]

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A Collaborative Approach to Mapping Marine Megafauna Movements

August 13, 2018by Sarah Marley 1 Comment

The understanding of the interplay of movement, behaviour and physiology that biologging offers has applied relevance for a range of fields, including evolutionary ecology, wildlife conservation and behavioural ecology. In […]

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Biologging in a remote world

August 2, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

The understanding of the interplay of movement, behaviour and physiology that biologging offers has applied relevance for a range of fields, including evolutionary ecology, wildlife conservation and behavioural ecology. In […]

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Using crowd-sourced funding to track snakes

July 27, 2018by Sarah Marley 2 Comments

The understanding of the interplay of movement, behaviour and physiology that biologging offers has applied relevance for a range of fields, including evolutionary ecology, wildlife conservation and behavioural ecology. In […]

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Video: Nowhere to Hide

June 12, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

A couple of weeks ago, we heard from Dr Craig DeMars about his recent publication on linear features and predator-prey dynamics in the forests of Canada. Craig has been kind enough […]

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Video

Nowhere to Hide: Changing landscapes and predator highways

May 29, 2018by Sarah Marley 1 Comment

Whilst we often think about human activities negatively altering the landscape, sometimes these changes can have unexpected benefits for predators. Of course, this is not necessarily good news for prey […]

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Divergent Migration in Lake Sturgeon

February 13, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Studying aquatic animals has never been easy. Hidden from view beneath the water surface, they can be hard to find let-alone study in terms of their long-range movements. A recent paper […]

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Field Reports: Marie Auger-Methe

November 24, 2017by Ravindra Leave a comment

For consecutive episodes, we have stories from another female field biologist. I spoke to a marine ecologist Dr. Marie Auger-Methe of the University of British Columbia about polar bears, narwhal […]

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Podcast

Spatial disease models: picking a “useful” model for pressing ecological questions

November 1, 2017by Simon Hoggart 2 Comments

Since all models are wrong the scientist cannot obtain a “correct” one by excessive elaboration. On the contrary following William of Occam he should seek an economical description of natural […]

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Author posts

Badgers and Disease Ecology

October 13, 2017by Sarah Marley 1 Comment

Traditionally one of the UK’s most charismatic (and certainly distinctive) mammals, the badger has received mixed attention in recent times as a result of their involvement in disease transmission.  To […]

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Social networks and disease transmission – A story of giraffes

June 23, 2017by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

World Giraffe Day celebrates the longest-necked animal on the longest day (or night, depending on your hemisphere!) of the year – 21st June.  Yet many aspects of giraffe ecology remain […]

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Marine Mammal Conservation in the Light of Marine Spatial Use

June 1, 2017by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Earlier this month, the European Cetacean Society (ECS) held their 31st annual conference in Middelfart, Denmark.  Established in 1987, ECS has several hundred members from more than 25 European countries […]

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Get the BES moving! BES Movement Ecology Special Interest Group Launch

December 13, 2016by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

Movement is fundamental to organismal life and constitutes the mechanistic link explaining the patterns observed in many ecological processes. Measures of animal movement, e.g. dispersal, residence time, home range size […]

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Associate Editors

Salmon smolts find safety in numbers

May 9, 2016by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

This post is a press release from the authors of Journal of Animal Ecology paper “Predator swamping reduces predation risk during nocturnal migration of juvenile salmon in a high-mortality landscape” by […]

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Press release, Video

The secret life of wild reindeer

December 10, 2015by Simon Hoggart 3 Comments

This post presents photos from the Special Feature” Stuck in motion? Reconnecting questions and tools in movement ecology ” from the current issue (85:1) of Journal of Animal Ecology Taken […]

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