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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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A guide for studying among-individual behavioral variation from movement data in the wild	108
A continuous-time state-space model for rapid quality control of argos locations from animal-borne tags	66
High-resolution, non-invasive animal tracking and reconstruction of local environment in aquatic ecosystems	32
Surviving in steep terrain: a lab-to-field assessment of locomotor costs for wild mountain lions (Puma concolor)	27
No room to roam: King Cobras reduce movement in agriculture	25
Reptiles on the wrong track? Moving beyond traditional estimators with dynamic Brownian Bridge Movement Models	24
Where did they not go? Considerations for generating pseudo-absences for telemetry-based habitat models	24
Drivers of realized satellite tracking duration in marine turtles	24
Towns and trails drive carnivore movement behaviour, resource selection, and connectivity	22
An application of upscaled optimal foraging theory using hidden Markov modelling: year-round behavioural variation in a large arctic herbivore	21
The ‘migratory connectivity’ concept, and its applicability to insect migrants	20
High individual repeatability of the migratory behaviour of a long-distance migratory seabird	19
Space use and habitat selection of an invasive mesopredator and sympatric, native apex predator	19
Bats seek refuge in cluttered environment when exposed to white and red lights at night	19
Analysis of movement recursions to detect reproductive events and estimate their fate in central place foragers	18
Inter-individual differences in foraging tactics of a colonial raptor: consistency, weather effects, and fitness correlates	18
Both short and long distance migrants use energy-minimizing migration strategies in North American herring gulls	17
Hidden Markov models identify major movement modes in accelerometer and magnetometer data from four albatross species	17
An evaluation of machine learning classifiers for next-generation, continuous-ethogram smart trackers	16
Seasonality impacts collective movements in a wild group-living bird	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	15
A critical assessment of marine predator isoscapes within the southern Indian Ocean	15
Recent trends in movement ecology of animals and human mobility	15
Using tri-axial accelerometer loggers to identify spawning behaviours of large pelagic fish	14
Limitations of using surrogates for behaviour classification of accelerometer data: refining methods using random forest models in Caprids	13

A role for lakes in revealing the nature of animal movement using high dimensional telemetry systems	13
How animals distribute themselves in space: energy landscapes of Antarctic avian predators	12
Adaptive drift and barrier-avoidance by a fly-forage migrant along a climate-driven flyway	12
Tracking animal movements using biomarkers in tail hairs: a novel approach for animal geolocating from sulfur isoscapes	12
The role of wind in controlling the connectivity of blue mussels (Mytilus edulis L.) populations	12
Quantifying effects of snow depth on caribou winter range selection and movement in Arctic Alaska	12
GPS tracking reveals landfill closures induce higher foraging effort and habitat switching in gulls	12
Seed dispersal as a search strategy: dynamic and fragmented landscapes select for multi-scale movement strategies in plants	11
Using movement to inform conservation corridor design for Mojave desert tortoise	11
Winter fidelity, movements, and energy expenditure of Midcontinent Greater White-fronted Geese	11
Landscape characteristics influence ranging behavior of Asian elephants at the human-wildlands interface in Myanmar	11
Movement ecology of vulnerable lowland tapirs between areas of varying human disturbance	11
Effects of habitat modifications on the movement behavior of animals: the case study of Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) and tropical tunas	11
Behavioral rhythms of an opportunistic predator living in anthropogenic landscapes	11
Environmental drivers of autumn migration departure decisions in midcontinental mallards	10
Inclement weather forces stopovers and prevents migratory progress for obligate soaring migrants	10
Breeding habitat loss reveals limited foraging flexibility and increases foraging effort in a colonial breeding seabird	10
Digging into the behaviour of an active hunting predator: arctic fox prey caching events revealed by accelerometry	10
Wave-slope soaring of the brown pelican	10
Roads constrain movement across behavioural processes in a partially migratory ungulate	10
Going underground: short- and long-term movements may reveal the fossorial spatial ecology of an amphisbaenian	10
A hierarchical machine learning framework for the analysis of large scale animal movement data	10
Horizontal-vertical movement relationships: Adélie penguins forage continuously throughout provisioning trips	10
Urban specialization reduces habitat connectivity by a highly mobile wading bird	10
Niche switching and leapfrog foraging: movement ecology of sympatric petrels during the early breeding season	10
Behaviour-specific habitat selection patterns of breeding barn owls	9
Residency and space use estimation methods based on passive acoustic telemetry data	9
The importance of individual movement and feeding behaviour for long-distance seed dispersal by red deer: a data-driven model	9
Foraging conditions for breeding penguins improve with distance from colony and progression of the breeding season at the South Orkney Islands	9
Movement predictability of individual barn owls facilitates estimation of home range size and survival	9
Empirical evaluation of the spatial scale and detection process of camera trap surveys	9
The multivariate analysis of variance as a powerful approach for circular data	9
Accelerometer informed time-energy budgets reveal the importance of temperature to the activity of a wild, arid zone canid	8
The Yellow-browed Warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus) as a model to understand vagrancy and its potential for the evolution of new migration routes	8
Timing is critical: consequences of asynchronous migration for the performance and destination of a long-distance migrant	8
Estimating the movements of terrestrial animal populations using broad-scale occurrence data	8
Caution is warranted when using animal space-use and movement to infer behavioral states	8
A partial migrant relies upon a range-wide cue set but uses population-specific weighting for migratory timing	8
Moving apart together: co-movement of a symbiont community and their ant host, and its importance for community assembly	8
Rattlesnake migrations and the implications of thermal landscapes	8
Migration ecology of western gray catbirds	7
Fusion of wildlife tracking and satellite geomagnetic data for the study of animal migration	7
Diffusion modeling reveals effects of multiple release sites and human activity on a recolonizing apex predator	7
Sensitivity of migratory connectivity estimates to spatial sampling design	7
Deterministic, random, or in between? Inferring the randomness level of wildlife movements	7
Behavioral modifications by a large-northern herbivore to mitigate warming conditions	7
Compensation for wind drift prevails for a shorebird on a long-distance, transoceanic flight	7
Autumn migration direction of juvenile willow warblers (Phylloscopus t. trochilus and P. t. acredula) and their hybrids assessed by qPCR SNP genotyping	7
MoveApps: a serverless no-code analysis platform for animal tracking data	7
Foraging behaviour of a continental shelf marine predator, the grey seal (Halichoerus grypus), is associated with in situ, subsurface oceanographic conditions	7

Prey and habitat distribution are not enough to explain predator habitat selection: addressing intraspecific interactions, behavioural state and time	7
Riders on the storm: loggerhead sea turtles detect and respond to a major hurricane in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean	7
Oversummering juvenile and adult Semipalmated sandpipers in Perú gain enough survival to compensate for foregone breeding opportunity	7
Birds of three worlds: moult migration to high Arctic expands a boreal-temperate flyway to a third biome	7
Simulation experiment to test strategies of geomagnetic navigation during long-distance bird migration	7
Patterns of foraging activity and fidelity in a southeast Asian flying fox	6
The use of nocturnal flights for barrier crossing in a diurnally migrating songbird	6
Interspecific and intraspecific foraging differentiation of neighbouring tropical seabirds	6
Is it the road or the fence? Influence of linear anthropogenic features on the movement and distribution of a partially migratory ungulate	6
Reducing human pressure on farmland could rescue China’s declining wintering geese	6
Individual and seasonal variation in the movement behavior of two tropical nectarivorous birds	6
Behavioural flexibility in an Arctic seabird using two distinct marine habitats to survive the energetic constraints of winter	6
Dispersal distance is driven by habitat availability and reproductive success in Northern Great Plains piping plovers	6
Spatial structure in migration routes maintained despite regional convergence among eastern populations of Swainson’s Thrushes	6
White stork movements reveal the ecological connectivity between landfills and different habitats	6
Simultaneous GPS-tracking of parents reveals a similar parental investment within pairs, but no immediate co-adjustment on a trip-to-trip basis	6
Variation in movement patterns of mule deer: have we oversimplified migration?	6
Flexible hidden Markov models for behaviour-dependent habitat selection	5
DynamoVis 1.0: an exploratory data visualization software for mapping movement in relation to internal and external factors	5
Migration distance affects how closely Eurasian wigeons follow spring phenology during migration	5
Atmospheric pressure predicts probability of departure for migratory songbirds	5
Individual consistency in migration strategies of a tropical seabird, the Round Island petrel	5
Movement and habitat selection of a large carnivore in response to human infrastructure differs by life stage	5
A 30,000-km journey by Apus apus pekinensis tracks arid lands between northern China and south-western Africa	5
Across the deserts and sea: inter-individual variation in migration routes of south-central European barn swallows (Hirundo rustica)	5
Linking migration and microbiota at a major stopover site in a long-distance avian migrant	5
Time-dependent memory and individual variation in Arctic brown bears (Ursus arctos)	5
Categorising cheetah behaviour using tri-axial accelerometer data loggers: a comparison of model resolution and data logger performance	5
Land cover and NDVI are important predictors in habitat selection along migration for the Golden-crowned Sparrow, a temperate-zone migrating songbird	4
A framework for integrating inferred movement behavior into disease risk models	4
An empirical Bayesian approach to incorporate directional movement information from a forage fish into the Arnason-Schwarz mark-recapture model	4
Phenological drivers of ungulate migration in South America: characterizing the movement and seasonal habitat use of guanacos	4
Analysis of local habitat selection and large-scale attraction/avoidance based on animal tracking data: is there a single best method?	4
Factors modulating home range and resource use: a case study with Canarian houbara bustards	4
Sea ice directs changes in bowhead whale phenology through the Bering Strait	4
Personality drives activity and space use in a mammalian herbivore	4
Experience and social factors influence movement and habitat selection in scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah) reintroduced into Chad	4
Inferring an animal’s environment through biologging: quantifying the environmental influence on animal movement	4
Movement and dispersal of a habitat specialist in human-dominated landscapes: a case study of the red panda	4
The boon and bane of boldness: movement syndrome as saviour and sink for population genetic diversity	4
Far eastern curlew and whimbrel prefer flying low - wind support and good visibility appear only secondary factors in determining migratory flight altitude	4
Linking movement and dive data to prey distribution models: new insights in foraging behaviour and potential pitfalls of movement analyses	4
Home sweet home: spatiotemporal distribution and site fidelity of the reef manta ray (Mobula alfredi) in Dungonab Bay, Sudan	4
Holling meets habitat selection: functional response of large herbivores revisited	4
Using pseudo-absence models to test for environmental selection in marine movement ecology: the importance of sample size and selection strength	4
Foraging movements of breeding Kelp Gulls in South Africa	4
Changes in selection of resources with reproductive state in a montane ungulate	3
Agricultural land use shapes dispersal in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)	3
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	3
African wild dog movements show contrasting responses to long and short term risk of encountering lions: analysis using dynamic Brownian bridge movement models	3
Sex specificity of dispersal behaviour and flight morphology varies among tree hollow beetle species	3
Context drives movement patterns in a mobile marine predator	3
Resource predictability modulates spatial-use networks in an endangered scavenger species	3
Differences in on-ground and aloft conditions explain seasonally different migration paths in Demoiselle crane	3
Alternative migratory strategies related to life history differences in the Walleye (Sander vitreus)	3
What has biotelemetry ever done for avian translocations?	3
Natal colony influences age-specific movement patterns of the Yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis)	3
Drivers of polar bear behavior and the possible effects of prey availability on foraging strategy	3
Influence of prey availability on habitat selection during the non-breeding period in a resident bird of prey	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
Foraging on the wing for fish while migrating over changing landscapes: traveling behaviors vary with available aquatic habitat for Caspian terns	3
Acoustic accelerometer transmitters and their growing relevance to aquatic science	3
The scent of fear makes sea urchins go ballistic	3
Categorizing the geometry of animal diel movement patterns with examples from high-resolution barn owl tracking	3
The spatial and temporal exploitation of anthropogenic food sources by common ravens (Corvus corax) in the Alps	3
Songbirds initiate migratory flights synchronously relative to civil dusk	3
Activity patterns throughout the annual cycle in a long-distance migratory songbird, the red-backed shrike Lanius collurio	3
Tricolored bats at a southern range edge exhibit partial migration northward in autumn	3
Multi-sensor geolocators unveil global and local movements in an Alpine-breeding long-distance migrant	3
Seasonal movements in caribou ecotypes of Western Canada	3
Movement-assisted localization from acoustic telemetry data	3
Paradigm versus paradox on the prairie: testing competing stream fish movement frameworks using an imperiled Great Plains minnow	3
Identification of reindeer fine-scale foraging behaviour using tri-axial accelerometer data	3