Key Questions in Marine Megafauna Movement Ecology

Graeme C Hays; Luciana C Ferreira; Ana M M Sequeira; Mark G Meekan; Carlos M Duarte; Helen Bailey; Fred Bailleul; W Don Bowen; M Julian Caley; Daniel P Costa; Victor M Eguíluz; Sabrina Fossette; Ari S Friedlaender; Nick Gales; Adrian C Gleiss; John Gunn; Rob Harcourt; Elliott L Hazen; Michael R Heithaus; Michelle Heupel; Kim Holland; Markus Horning; Ian Jonsen; Gerald L Kooyman; Christopher G Lowe; Peter T Madsen; Helene Marsh; Richard A Phillips; David Righton; Yan Ropert-Coudert; Katsufumi Sato; Scott A Shaffer; Colin A Simpfendorfer; David W Sims; Gregory Skomal; Akinori Takahashi; Philip N Trathan; Martin Wikelski; Jamie N Womble; Michele Thums

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2016.02.015

Key Questions in Marine Megafauna Movement Ecology

Trends Ecol Evol. 2016 Jun;31(6):463-475. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2016.02.015. Epub 2016 Mar 12.

Authors

Graeme C Hays¹, Luciana C Ferreira², Ana M M Sequeira³, Mark G Meekan⁴, Carlos M Duarte⁵, Helen Bailey⁶, Fred Bailleul⁷, W Don Bowen⁸, M Julian Caley⁹, Daniel P Costa¹⁰, Victor M Eguíluz¹¹, Sabrina Fossette¹², Ari S Friedlaender¹³, Nick Gales¹⁴, Adrian C Gleiss¹⁵, John Gunn¹⁶, Rob Harcourt¹⁷, Elliott L Hazen¹⁸, Michael R Heithaus¹⁹, Michelle Heupel²⁰, Kim Holland²¹, Markus Horning²², Ian Jonsen¹⁷, Gerald L Kooyman²³, Christopher G Lowe²⁴, Peter T Madsen²⁵, Helene Marsh²⁶, Richard A Phillips²⁷, David Righton²⁸, Yan Ropert-Coudert²⁹, Katsufumi Sato³⁰, Scott A Shaffer³¹, Colin A Simpfendorfer³², David W Sims³³, Gregory Skomal³⁴, Akinori Takahashi³⁵, Philip N Trathan²⁷, Martin Wikelski³⁶, Jamie N Womble³⁷, Michele Thums⁴

Affiliations

¹ Deakin University, Geelong, Australia, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Centre for Integrative Ecology, Warrnambool, VIC 3280, Australia. Electronic address: [email protected].
² IOMRC and The UWA Oceans Institute, School of Animal Biology and Centre for Marine Futures, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia; Australian Institute of Marine Science, c/o The UWA Oceans Institute, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.
³ IOMRC and The UWA Oceans Institute, School of Animal Biology and Centre for Marine Futures, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.
⁴ Australian Institute of Marine Science, c/o The UWA Oceans Institute, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.
⁵ King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Red Sea Research Center (RSRC), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
⁶ Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Solomons, MD 20688, USA.
⁷ South Australian Research and Development Institute (Aquatic Sciences), 2 Hamra Avenue, West Beach, Adelaide, SA 5024, Australia.
⁸ Population Ecology Division, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, B2Y 4A2, Canada.
⁹ Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers, Australia; Australian Institute of Marine Science, PMB No. 3, Townsville, QLD 4810, Australia.
¹⁰ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA.
¹¹ Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos IFISC (CSIC-UIB), E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
¹² School of Animal Biology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.
¹³ Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Marine Mammal Institute, Oregon State University, 2030 Marine Science Drive, Newport, OR 97365, USA.
¹⁴ Australian Antarctic Division, Department of the Environment, Australian Government, Kingston, TAS 7050, Australia.
¹⁵ Centre for Fish and Fisheries Research, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia.
¹⁶ Australian Institute of Marine Science, PMB No. 3, Townsville, QLD 4810, Australia.
¹⁷ Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia.
¹⁸ Environmental Research Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 99 Pacific St, Suite 255A, Monterey, CA 93940, USA.
¹⁹ Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33174, USA.
²⁰ Australian Institute of Marine Science, PMB No. 3, Townsville, QLD 4810, Australia; Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture, and College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia.
²¹ Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, PO Box 1346, Kaneohe, HI 98744, USA.
²² Science Department, Alaska SeaLife Center, Seward, AK 99664, USA.
²³ Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA 92093, USA.
²⁴ Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA 90840, USA.
²⁵ Zoophysiology, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, DK 8000, Denmark; Murdoch University Cetacean Research Unit, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Perth, WA 6150, Australia.
²⁶ College of Marine and Environmental Science, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4810, Australia.
²⁷ British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK.
²⁸ Fisheries and Ecosystems Division, Cefas Laboratory, Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, NR34 7RU, UK.
²⁹ Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, Station d'Écologie de Chizé-Université de La Rochelle, CNRS UMR 7372, 79360 Villiers-en-Bois, France.
³⁰ Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa City, Chiba Prefecture, 277-8564, Japan.
³¹ Department of Biological Sciences, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 95192-0100, USA.
³² Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture, and College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia.
³³ Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, PL1 2PB, UK; Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, University of Southampton, Waterfront Campus, European Way, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK; Centre for Biological Sciences, Building 85, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.
³⁴ Massachusetts Shark Research Project, Division of Marine Fisheries, 1213 Purchase St, New Bedford, MA 02740, USA.
³⁵ National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan.
³⁶ Department of Migration and ImmunoEcology, Max-Planck Institute for Ornithology, Am Obstberg 1, 78315 Radolfzell, Germany; Konstanz University, Department of Biology, 78457 Konstanz, Germany.
³⁷ National Park Service, Glacier Bay Field Station, 3100 National Park Road, Juneau, AK 99801, USA.

PMID: 26979550
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2016.02.015

Abstract

It is a golden age for animal movement studies and so an opportune time to assess priorities for future work. We assembled 40 experts to identify key questions in this field, focussing on marine megafauna, which include a broad range of birds, mammals, reptiles, and fish. Research on these taxa has both underpinned many of the recent technical developments and led to fundamental discoveries in the field. We show that the questions have broad applicability to other taxa, including terrestrial animals, flying insects, and swimming invertebrates, and, as such, this exercise provides a useful roadmap for targeted deployments and data syntheses that should advance the field of movement ecology.

MeSH terms

Animals
Birds
Ecology*
Mammals
Marine Biology*
Reptiles