Tracking animal dispersal: from individual movement to community assembly and global range dynamics

TY - JOUR

T1 - Tracking animal dispersal

T2 - from individual movement to community assembly and global range dynamics

AU - Jønsson, Knud Andreas

AU - Tøttrup, Anders P.

AU - Borregaard, Michael Krabbe

AU - Keith, Sally A.

AU - Rahbek, Carsten

AU - Thorup, Kasper

PY - 2016/3/1

Y1 - 2016/3/1

N2 - Dispersal is one of the key processes in shaping distributional ranges and community assemblages, but we know little about animal dispersal at the individual, population, or community levels, or about how dispersal correlates with the establishment and colonization of new areas. This is largely due to difficulties in studying individual movements at the relevant spatiotemporal scale, leading to a gap between the direct study of dispersal and our understanding of the build-up of larger-scale biodiversity. Recent advances in tracking technology make it possible to bridge this gap. We propose a way to link movement, dispersal, ecology, and biogeography. In particular, we offer a framework to scale-up from processes at the individual level to global patterns of biodiversity. New tracking technologies allow direct assessments of dispersal. New tracking methodologies allow direct assessments of diversity build-up.

AB - Dispersal is one of the key processes in shaping distributional ranges and community assemblages, but we know little about animal dispersal at the individual, population, or community levels, or about how dispersal correlates with the establishment and colonization of new areas. This is largely due to difficulties in studying individual movements at the relevant spatiotemporal scale, leading to a gap between the direct study of dispersal and our understanding of the build-up of larger-scale biodiversity. Recent advances in tracking technology make it possible to bridge this gap. We propose a way to link movement, dispersal, ecology, and biogeography. In particular, we offer a framework to scale-up from processes at the individual level to global patterns of biodiversity. New tracking technologies allow direct assessments of dispersal. New tracking methodologies allow direct assessments of diversity build-up.

U2 - 10.1016/j.tree.2016.01.003

DO - 10.1016/j.tree.2016.01.003

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 26852171

SN - 0169-5347

VL - 31

SP - 204

EP - 214

JO - Trends in Ecology & Evolution

JF - Trends in Ecology & Evolution

IS - 3

ER -