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Papers

(The median citation count of Movement Ecology is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Towns and trails drive carnivore movement behaviour, resource selection, and connectivity	32
Where did they not go? Considerations for generating pseudo-absences for telemetry-based habitat models	31
Drivers of realized satellite tracking duration in marine turtles	29
High individual repeatability of the migratory behaviour of a long-distance migratory seabird	23
Hidden Markov models identify major movement modes in accelerometer and magnetometer data from four albatross species	22
Recent trends in movement ecology of animals and human mobility	22
The ‘migratory connectivity’ concept, and its applicability to insect migrants	22
Residency and space use estimation methods based on passive acoustic telemetry data	20
Bats seek refuge in cluttered environment when exposed to white and red lights at night	19
How animals distribute themselves in space: energy landscapes of Antarctic avian predators	19
Seasonality impacts collective movements in a wild group-living bird	18
An evaluation of machine learning classifiers for next-generation, continuous-ethogram smart trackers	17
Behaviour-specific habitat selection patterns of breeding barn owls	17
GPS tracking reveals landfill closures induce higher foraging effort and habitat switching in gulls	16
Using tri-axial accelerometer loggers to identify spawning behaviours of large pelagic fish	16
Migrating curlews on schedule: departure and arrival patterns of a long-distance migrant depend on time and breeding location rather than on wind conditions	16
Roads constrain movement across behavioural processes in a partially migratory ungulate	15
Movement ecology of vulnerable lowland tapirs between areas of varying human disturbance	15
Quantifying effects of snow depth on caribou winter range selection and movement in Arctic Alaska	14
Movement predictability of individual barn owls facilitates estimation of home range size and survival	14
Environmental drivers of autumn migration departure decisions in midcontinental mallards	14
Effects of habitat modifications on the movement behavior of animals: the case study of Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) and tropical tunas	14
Urban specialization reduces habitat connectivity by a highly mobile wading bird	14
Limitations of using surrogates for behaviour classification of accelerometer data: refining methods using random forest models in Caprids	14
A role for lakes in revealing the nature of animal movement using high dimensional telemetry systems	14

Compensation for wind drift prevails for a shorebird on a long-distance, transoceanic flight	13
Landscape characteristics influence ranging behavior of Asian elephants at the human-wildlands interface in Myanmar	13
Winter fidelity, movements, and energy expenditure of Midcontinent Greater White-fronted Geese	13
Wave-slope soaring of the brown pelican	13
Adaptive drift and barrier-avoidance by a fly-forage migrant along a climate-driven flyway	13
Seed dispersal as a search strategy: dynamic and fragmented landscapes select for multi-scale movement strategies in plants	13
The multivariate analysis of variance as a powerful approach for circular data	13
The role of wind in controlling the connectivity of blue mussels (Mytilus edulis L.) populations	13
Moving apart together: co-movement of a symbiont community and their ant host, and its importance for community assembly	12
Going underground: short- and long-term movements may reveal the fossorial spatial ecology of an amphisbaenian	12
Prey and habitat distribution are not enough to explain predator habitat selection: addressing intraspecific interactions, behavioural state and time	11
The Yellow-browed Warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus) as a model to understand vagrancy and its potential for the evolution of new migration routes	11
Empirical evaluation of the spatial scale and detection process of camera trap surveys	11
Horizontal-vertical movement relationships: Adélie penguins forage continuously throughout provisioning trips	11
Digging into the behaviour of an active hunting predator: arctic fox prey caching events revealed by accelerometry	11
Foraging conditions for breeding penguins improve with distance from colony and progression of the breeding season at the South Orkney Islands	11
Inclement weather forces stopovers and prevents migratory progress for obligate soaring migrants	10
A hierarchical machine learning framework for the analysis of large scale animal movement data	10
Breeding habitat loss reveals limited foraging flexibility and increases foraging effort in a colonial breeding seabird	10
Variation in movement patterns of mule deer: have we oversimplified migration?	10
Accelerometer informed time-energy budgets reveal the importance of temperature to the activity of a wild, arid zone canid	9
Flexible hidden Markov models for behaviour-dependent habitat selection	9
MoveApps: a serverless no-code analysis platform for animal tracking data	9
Seasonal movements in caribou ecotypes of Western Canada	9
Is it the road or the fence? Influence of linear anthropogenic features on the movement and distribution of a partially migratory ungulate	9
Fusion of wildlife tracking and satellite geomagnetic data for the study of animal migration	9
Linking movement and dive data to prey distribution models: new insights in foraging behaviour and potential pitfalls of movement analyses	9
Phenological drivers of ungulate migration in South America: characterizing the movement and seasonal habitat use of guanacos	9
Land cover and NDVI are important predictors in habitat selection along migration for the Golden-crowned Sparrow, a temperate-zone migrating songbird	8
Context drives movement patterns in a mobile marine predator	8
Behavioural flexibility in an Arctic seabird using two distinct marine habitats to survive the energetic constraints of winter	8
A partial migrant relies upon a range-wide cue set but uses population-specific weighting for migratory timing	8
A 30,000-km journey by Apus apus pekinensis tracks arid lands between northern China and south-western Africa	8
Estimating the movements of terrestrial animal populations using broad-scale occurrence data	8
Diffusion modeling reveals effects of multiple release sites and human activity on a recolonizing apex predator	8
Caution is warranted when using animal space-use and movement to infer behavioral states	8
Migration distance affects how closely Eurasian wigeons follow spring phenology during migration	8
Deterministic, random, or in between? Inferring the randomness level of wildlife movements	8
Migration ecology of western gray catbirds	8
Across the deserts and sea: inter-individual variation in migration routes of south-central European barn swallows (Hirundo rustica)	8
Movement and habitat selection of a large carnivore in response to human infrastructure differs by life stage	8
Timing is critical: consequences of asynchronous migration for the performance and destination of a long-distance migrant	8
Atmospheric pressure predicts probability of departure for migratory songbirds	7
Linking migration and microbiota at a major stopover site in a long-distance avian migrant	7
Spatial structure in migration routes maintained despite regional convergence among eastern populations of Swainson’s Thrushes	7
Movement and dispersal of a habitat specialist in human-dominated landscapes: a case study of the red panda	7
The comparison of dispersal rate between invasive and native species varied by plant life form and functional traits	7
Birds of three worlds: moult migration to high Arctic expands a boreal-temperate flyway to a third biome	7
The use of nocturnal flights for barrier crossing in a diurnally migrating songbird	7
Dispersal distance is driven by habitat availability and reproductive success in Northern Great Plains piping plovers	7

The scent of fear makes sea urchins go ballistic	7
White stork movements reveal the ecological connectivity between landfills and different habitats	7
Factors modulating home range and resource use: a case study with Canarian houbara bustards	7
African wild dog movements show contrasting responses to long and short term risk of encountering lions: analysis using dynamic Brownian bridge movement models	7
Simultaneous GPS-tracking of parents reveals a similar parental investment within pairs, but no immediate co-adjustment on a trip-to-trip basis	7
Interspecific and intraspecific foraging differentiation of neighbouring tropical seabirds	7
Individual and seasonal variation in the movement behavior of two tropical nectarivorous birds	7
Sensitivity of migratory connectivity estimates to spatial sampling design	7
Simulation experiment to test strategies of geomagnetic navigation during long-distance bird migration	7
Activity patterns throughout the annual cycle in a long-distance migratory songbird, the red-backed shrike Lanius collurio	6
Multi-sensor geolocators unveil global and local movements in an Alpine-breeding long-distance migrant	6
A framework for integrating inferred movement behavior into disease risk models	6
Identification of reindeer fine-scale foraging behaviour using tri-axial accelerometer data	6
Holling meets habitat selection: functional response of large herbivores revisited	6
Personality drives activity and space use in a mammalian herbivore	6
Individual consistency in migration strategies of a tropical seabird, the Round Island petrel	6
Patterns of foraging activity and fidelity in a southeast Asian flying fox	6
Songbirds initiate migratory flights synchronously relative to civil dusk	6
Categorising cheetah behaviour using tri-axial accelerometer data loggers: a comparison of model resolution and data logger performance	6
Seasonal variation in activity and nearshore habitat use of Lake Trout in a subarctic lake	6
Advances in biologging can identify nuanced energetic costs and gains in predators	6
Resource predictability modulates spatial-use networks in an endangered scavenger species	5
DynamoVis 1.0: an exploratory data visualization software for mapping movement in relation to internal and external factors	5
Categorizing the geometry of animal diel movement patterns with examples from high-resolution barn owl tracking	5
Soaring migrants flexibly respond to sea-breeze in a migratory bottleneck: using first derivatives to identify behavioural adjustments over time	5
Analysis of local habitat selection and large-scale attraction/avoidance based on animal tracking data: is there a single best method?	5
Sea ice directs changes in bowhead whale phenology through the Bering Strait	5
Differences in on-ground and aloft conditions explain seasonally different migration paths in Demoiselle crane	5
Variation in herbivore space use: comparing two savanna ecosystems with different anthrax outbreak patterns in southern Africa	5
Home sweet home: spatiotemporal distribution and site fidelity of the reef manta ray (Mobula alfredi) in Dungonab Bay, Sudan	5
Changes in selection of resources with reproductive state in a montane ungulate	5
Natal colony influences age-specific movement patterns of the Yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis)	5
Post-fire movements of Pacific marten (Martes caurina) depend on the severity of landscape change	5
Alternative migratory strategies related to life history differences in the Walleye (Sander vitreus)	5
Paradigm versus paradox on the prairie: testing competing stream fish movement frameworks using an imperiled Great Plains minnow	5
Scatter-hoarding birds disperse seeds to sites unfavorable for plant regeneration	5
Time-dependent memory and individual variation in Arctic brown bears (Ursus arctos)	5
Influence of prey availability on habitat selection during the non-breeding period in a resident bird of prey	5
Primed and cued: long-term acoustic telemetry links interannual and seasonal variations in freshwater flows to the spawning migrations of Common Snook in the Florida Everglades	4
Using pseudo-absence models to test for environmental selection in marine movement ecology: the importance of sample size and selection strength	4
Far eastern curlew and whimbrel prefer flying low - wind support and good visibility appear only secondary factors in determining migratory flight altitude	4
Experience and social factors influence movement and habitat selection in scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah) reintroduced into Chad	4
Predicting movement speed of beetles from body size and temperature	4
Rhythm of relationships in a social fish over the course of a full year in the wild	4
Mechanistic movement models identify continuously updated autumn migration cues in Arctic caribou	4
An empirical Bayesian approach to incorporate directional movement information from a forage fish into the Arnason-Schwarz mark-recapture model	4
Drivers of polar bear behavior and the possible effects of prey availability on foraging strategy	4
Sex specificity of dispersal behaviour and flight morphology varies among tree hollow beetle species	4
Crabs ride the tide: incoming tides promote foraging of Giant Mud Crab (Scylla serrata)	4
Do beluga whales truly migrate? Testing a key trait of the classical migration syndrome	3
Foraging on the wing for fish while migrating over changing landscapes: traveling behaviors vary with available aquatic habitat for Caspian terns	3
Evaluating density-weighted connectivity of black bears (Ursus americanus) in Glacier National Park with spatial capture–recapture models	3
Effect of harness design for tag attachment on the flight performance of five soaring species	3
Multi-scale movement syndromes for comparative analyses of animal movement patterns	3
What has biotelemetry ever done for avian translocations?	3
Behaviour of anadromous brown trout (Salmo trutta) in a hydropower regulated freshwater system	3
Tricolored bats at a southern range edge exhibit partial migration northward in autumn	3
The oxidative balance and stopover departure decisions in a medium- and a long-distance migrant	3
Identifying resting locations of a small elusive forest carnivore using a two-stage model accounting for GPS measurement error and hidden behavioral states	3
Distributing transmitters to maximize population-level representativeness in automated radio telemetry studies of animal movement	3
Overwintering aggregation patterns of European catfish Silurus glanis	3
Rayleigh step-selection functions and connections to continuous-time mechanistic movement models	3
Combining acoustic tracking and LiDAR to study bat flight behaviour in three-dimensional space	3
Changes in movement, habitat use, and response to human disturbance accompany parturition events in bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis)	3
Agricultural land use shapes dispersal in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)	3
Linking fine-scale behaviour to the hydraulic environment shows behavioural responses in riverine fish	3
Combining accelerometry with allometry for estimating daily energy expenditure in joules when in-lab calibration is unavailable	3
When complex movement yields simple dispersal: behavioural heterogeneity, spatial spread and parasitism in groups of micro-wasps	3
Acoustic accelerometer transmitters and their growing relevance to aquatic science	3
Land use drives differential resource selection by African elephants in the Greater Mara Ecosystem, Kenya	3
Movement and behavioral states of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) in response to a behavioral deterrent in a navigational lock	3
The spatial and temporal exploitation of anthropogenic food sources by common ravens (Corvus corax) in the Alps	3
Central-place foraging poses variable constraints year-round in a neotropical migrant	3
Multispecies fish tracking across newly created shallow and deep habitats in a forward-restored lake	3