Dec 2018: A couple of curious Rainbow Lorikeets visited me as I was eating breakfast in Mollymook, on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. I was there to co-host a workshop on movement ecology with Pia Lentini and Philip Barton, which brought together staff from the Australian Government Environment Department and a group of international scientists.
Animals and plants (their pollen and seeds) need to move across landscapes, but cities, crops and roads and often get in their way. Unfortunately, it's difficult to get data on animals and plants when they move because it's often confined to a brief burst of activity, or the species are small and elusive so we can't see them moving. So movement is important but we don't know much about it, which makes conservation planning difficult. How do we allocate resources to restoration and habitat protection in a way that will preserve the movement of species?
Our paper arising from the Mollymook workshop presents a new framework for managing uncertaintainty in movement knowledge when making environmental decisions. Check it out here!
Smith AL, Kujala H, Lahoz-Monfort JJ, Guja LK, Burns EL, Nathan R, Alacs E, Barton PS, Bau S, Driscoll DA, Lentini PE, Mortelliti A, Rowe R, Buckley YM (2018). Managing uncertainty in movement knowledge for environmental decisions. Conservation Letters doi.org/10.1111/conl.12620
Animals and plants (their pollen and seeds) need to move across landscapes, but cities, crops and roads and often get in their way. Unfortunately, it's difficult to get data on animals and plants when they move because it's often confined to a brief burst of activity, or the species are small and elusive so we can't see them moving. So movement is important but we don't know much about it, which makes conservation planning difficult. How do we allocate resources to restoration and habitat protection in a way that will preserve the movement of species?
Our paper arising from the Mollymook workshop presents a new framework for managing uncertaintainty in movement knowledge when making environmental decisions. Check it out here!
Smith AL, Kujala H, Lahoz-Monfort JJ, Guja LK, Burns EL, Nathan R, Alacs E, Barton PS, Bau S, Driscoll DA, Lentini PE, Mortelliti A, Rowe R, Buckley YM (2018). Managing uncertainty in movement knowledge for environmental decisions. Conservation Letters doi.org/10.1111/conl.12620