title: Tracking Animal Dispersal: From Individual Movement to Community Assembly and Global Range Dynamics.
abstract: 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.
authors: Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK.
authors: Knud Andreas
authors: KA
authors: Jønsson
authors: Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors: Anders P
authors: AP
authors: Tøttrup
authors: Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors: Michael Krabbe
authors: MK
authors: Borregaard
authors: Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors: Sally A
authors: SA
authors: Keith
authors: Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK. Electronic address: crahbek@snm.ku.dk.
authors: Carsten
authors: C
authors: Rahbek
authors: Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Electronic address: kthorup@snm.ku.dk.
authors: Kasper
authors: K
authors: Thorup
mesh_terms: D063147:Animal Distribution; D000818:Animals; D044822:Biodiversity; D008954:Models, Biological; D009068:Movement
keywords: GPS tags; diversity build-up; movement; range shifts; tracking technologies