Estimating encounter location distributions from animal tracking data

Noonan, Michael; Martínez-García, Ricardo; Davis, Grace H.; Crofoot, Margaret C.; Kays, Roland; Hirsch, Ben T.; Caillaud, Damien; Payne, Eric; Sih, Andrew; Sinn, David L.; Spiegel, Orr; Fagan, William F.; Fleming, Christen H.; Calabrese, Justin M.

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“…Importantly, we show an association between male-associated behaviours and their partner’s behaviour, which is one of very few examples in the wider literature where individual movement-based behaviour has been shown to affect that of the respective partner 71 . In the future, we expect that with a growing collection of high-resolution biologging data, in avian and non-avian species, as well as an increasing theoretical and statistical framework on intra- and interspecific interactions 4 , 5 , 21 , 72 these findings will be more common.…”

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Prospecting movements link phenotypic traits to female annual potential fitness in a nocturnal predator

Becciu

Séchaud

Schalcher

et al. 2023

Sci Rep

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Recent biologging technology reveals hidden life and breeding strategies of nocturnal animals. Combining animal movement patterns with individual characteristics and landscape features can uncover meaningful behaviours that directly influence fitness. Consequently, defining the proximate mechanisms and adaptive value of the identified behaviours is of paramount importance. Breeding female barn owls (Tyto alba), a colour-polymorphic species, recurrently visit other nest boxes at night. We described and quantified this behaviour for the first time, linking it with possible drivers, and individual fitness. We GPS-equipped 178 female barn owls and 122 male partners from 2016 to 2020 in western Switzerland during the chick rearing phase. We observed that 111 (65%) of the tracked breeding females were (re)visiting nest boxes while still carrying out their first brood. We modelled their prospecting parameters as a function of brood-, individual- and partner-related variables and found that female feather eumelanism predicted the emergence of prospecting behaviour (less melanic females are usually prospecting). More importantly we found that increasing male parental investment (e.g., feeding rate) increased female prospecting efforts. Ultimately, females would (re)visit a nest more often if they had used it in the past and were more likely to lay a second clutch afterwards, consequently having higher annual fecundity than non-prospecting females. Despite these apparent immediate benefits, they did not fledge more chicks. Through biologging and long-term field monitoring, we highlight how phenotypic traits (melanism and parental investment) can be related to movement patterns and the annual potential reproductive output (fecundity) of female barn owls.

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Prospecting movements link phenotypic traits to female annual potential fitness in a nocturnal predator

Becciu

Séchaud

Schalcher

et al. 2023

Sci Rep

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“…This process would also shift the focal aggressive lizards' HR location. To better understand social effects on HR fidelity, a valuable direction could involve doing more detailed analyses of tracking data to identify not just conspecific encounter rates but likely locations of encounters with specific neighbors at particular times (Noonan et al, 2021), followed by changes (or not) in space use after these encounters.…”

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Intrinsic traits, social context, and local environment shape home range size and fidelity of sleepy lizards

Payne

Spiegel

Sinn

et al. 2022

Ecological Monographs

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Home ranges (HRs), the regions within which animals interact with their environment, constitute a fundamental aspect of their ecology. HR sizes and locations commonly reflect costs and benefits associated with diverse social, biotic, and abiotic factors. Less is known, however, about how these factors affect intraspecific variation in HR size or fidelity (the individual's tendency to maintain the same HR location over time) or whether variation in these features emerge from consistent differences among individuals or among the sites they occupy. To address this knowledge gap, we used an extensive GPS-tracking data set of a long-lived lizard, the sleepy lizard (Tiliqua rugosa),

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“…In particular, anthropogenic landscape changes increase spillover risk by: (i) altering the abundance and distribution of wildlife hosts, with highly modified areas potentially attracting a greater abundance of known reservoir hosts of zoonoses (e.g., rodents and some bat species), (ii) promoting stress-induced shedding and host susceptibility, and (iii) increasing contact rates among domestic animals, wildlife, and humans [1,2,11,22,47]. While interspecific contacts are difficult to quantify in the wild, advances in animal tracking [48], data sharing platforms (e.g., Movebank), and quantitative methods [49] can refine our predictions of animal encounters, so additional monitoring can be directed to highrisk locations. However, given the difficulty of identifying and tracking the multitude of potential hosts, future applications of spatial ecology to understanding and preventing cross-species transmission may focus increasingly on resilience, rather than risk, within landscapes.…”

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SARS-CoV-2: Cross-scale Insights from Ecology and Evolution

Snedden

Makanani

Schwartz

et al. 2021

Trends in Microbiology

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Ecological and evolutionary processes govern the fitness, propagation, and interactions of organisms through space and time, and viruses are no exception. While COVID-19 research has primarily emphasized virological, clinical, and epidemiological perspectives, crucial aspects of the pandemic are fundamentally ecological or evolutionary. Here, we highlight five conceptual domains of ecology and evolution – invasion, consumer-resource interactions, spatial ecology, diversity, and adaptation – that illuminate (sometimes unexpectedly) the emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2. We describe the applications of these concepts across levels of biological organization and spatial scales, including within individual hosts, host populations, and multi-species communities. Together, these perspectives illustrate the integrative power of ecological and evolutionary ideas and highlight the benefits of interdisciplinary thinking for understanding emerging viruses.

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Estimating encounter location distributions from animal tracking data

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Cited by 32 publications

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Prospecting movements link phenotypic traits to female annual potential fitness in a nocturnal predator

Prospecting movements link phenotypic traits to female annual potential fitness in a nocturnal predator

Intrinsic traits, social context, and local environment shape home range size and fidelity of sleepy lizards

SARS-CoV-2: Cross-scale Insights from Ecology and Evolution

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