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Key Questions in Marine Megafauna Movement Ecology

2016; Elsevier BV; Volume: 31; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.tree.2016.02.015

1872-8383

Graeme C. Hays, Luciana C. Ferreira, Ana M. M. Sequeira, Mark G. Meekan, Carlos M. Duarte, Helen Bailey, Fred Bailleul, W. Don Bowen, M. Julian Caley, Daniel P. Costa, Vı́ctor M. Eguı́luz, Sabrina Fossette, Ari S. Friedlaender, Nick Gales, Adrian C. Gleiss, John Gunn, Robert Harcourt, Elliott L. Hazen, Michael R. Heithaus, Michelle R. Heupel, Kim N. Holland, Markus Horning, Ian D. Jonsen, Gerald L. Kooyman, Christopher G. Lowe, Peter T. Madsen, Helene Marsh, Richard A. Phillips, David Righton, Yan Ropert‐Coudert, Katsufumi Sato, Scott A. Shaffer, Colin A. Simpfendorfer, David Sims, Gregory B. Skomal, Akinori Takahashi, Philip N. Trathan, Martin Wikelski, Jamie N. Womble, Michele Thums,

Animal Behavior and Reproduction

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.