Integrating movement ecology with biodiversity research - exploring new avenues to address spatiotemporal biodiversity dynamics

Movement Ecology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Jeltsch, Florian ^a,b   Bonte, Dries ^c   Pe'er, Guy ^d   Reineking, Björn ^e,f   Leimgruber, Peter ^g   Balkenhol, Niko ^h   Schröder, Boris ^b,i,j   Buchmann, Carsten M ^d   Mueller, Thomas ^g,k   Blaum, Niels ^a   Zurell, Damaris ^a   Böhning Gaese, Katrin ^l,m   Wiegand, Thorsten ^d   Eccard, Jana A ^a,b   Hofer, Heribert ⁿ   Reeg, Jette ^a   Eggers, Ute ^a   Bauer, Silke ^o,p  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b BERLIN BRANDENBURG INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH BBIB   (Germany)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^f Cemagref   (France)

^g SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

ⁱ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^j TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^k Bldg 142   (United States)

^l BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^m GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

ⁿ LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^o NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^p SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Community dynamics; Individual based modeling; Landscape genetics; Long distance movement; Mobile links; Species coexistence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895736747     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20513933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2051-3933-1-6     Document Type: Review

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