Tracking Animal Dispersal: From Individual Movement to Community Assembly and Global Range Dynamics

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• 作者：Knud Andreas Jø ; nsson¹ ; ² ; ³ ; Anders P. Tø ; ttrup¹ ; ³ ; Michael Krabbe Borregaard¹ ; Sally A. Keith¹ ; Carsten Rahbek¹ ; ² ; ^{crahbek@snm.ku.dk" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Kasper Thorup¹ ; ^{kthorup@snm.ku.dk" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：diversity build-up ; GPS tags ; tracking technologies ; movement ; range shifts
• 刊名：Trends in Ecology & Evolution
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：March 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：31
• 期：3
• 页码：204-214
• 全文大小：1962 K

文摘

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.