Spatial memory and animal movement

Ecology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1316-1329

  Fagan, William F ^a   Lewis, Mark A ^b   Auger Méthé, Marie ^b   Avgar, Tal ^c   Benhamou, Simon ^d   Breed, Greg ^b   Ladage, Lara ^e   Schlägel, Ulrike E ^b   Tang, Wen Wu ^f   Papastamatiou, Yannis P ^g   Forester, James ^h   Mueller, Thomas ^a,i  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

ⁱ SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal spatial cognition; Attribute memory; Cognitive maps; Movement ecology; Orientation tasks; Return points; Spatial memory; Systematic searches

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COGNITION; DATA SET; MEMORY; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; TAXONOMY; TRACKING;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL SPATIAL COGNITION; ATTRIBUTE MEMORY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COGNITIVE MAPS; EVOLUTION; MEMORY; MOVEMENT ECOLOGY; ORIENTATION TASKS; POPULATION MIGRATION; RESEARCH; RETURN POINTS; REVIEW; SPATIAL MEMORY; SYSTEMATIC SEARCHES;

ANIMAL SPATIAL COGNITION; ATTRIBUTE MEMORY; COGNITIVE MAPS; MOVEMENT ECOLOGY; ORIENTATION TASKS; RETURN POINTS; SPATIAL MEMORY; SYSTEMATIC SEARCHES;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; MEMORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RESEARCH;

EID: 84883753366     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12165     Document Type: Review

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