Animal Movement Across Scales
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780199677184
Subjects: Animal migration; Animal mechanics
Description: This study takes a broad and timely approach to animal movement across both temporal and spatial scales. Movement and migration on land, in the air, and in water are pervading features of animal life-from the smallest protozoans to the largest whales - and can extend from millimetres to global scale. Research into animal movement ecology is now entering a new era with the development of novel molecular, electronic, and technical methods that make it possible to analyse the movements of individual animals under complex environmental conditions that determine the evolution of movement habits.