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TY - JOUR
T1 - Tracking dispersal
T2 - from individual movement to community assembly and global range dynamics
AU - Jønsson, Knud
AU - Tøttrup, Anders
AU - Borregaard, Michael
AU - Keith, Sal
AU - Rahbek, Carsten
AU - Thorup, Kasper
PY - 2016/3
Y1 - 2016/3
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.
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.
KW - diversity build-up
KW - GPS tags
KW - tracking technologies
KW - movement
KW - range shifts
U2 - 10.1016/j.tree.2016.01.003
DO - 10.1016/j.tree.2016.01.003
M3 - Journal article
VL - 31
SP - 204
EP - 214
JO - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
JF - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
SN - 0169-5347
IS - 3
ER -