Friday, August 10, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
A1&8, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
SYMP 22 - Movement ecology
Movement of individual organisms is fundamental to life and quilts our planet with a diversity of landscapes. We propose in this symposium to introduce Movement Ecology, as an identified subfield of Ecology, to stimulate the development of general theories that integrate across gaps maintained by the current separation of research efforts with respect to modes of movement and types of organisms. Such theories will enhance our ability to quantify movement and to characterize resultant spatial and temporal patterns of the trajectories of individuals, as well as the principles leading to pattern formation (see session justification). We invited a diverse international group of speakers—representing a wide range of expertise including physicists, mathematicians, theoretical ecologists, plant ecologists and ethologists—to present the first effort to unify the study of the patterns and mechanisms of organism movements, their causes and consequences. The symposium will begin with a short introduction, end with a general synthesis, and will include three thematic topics addressing the patterns, mechanisms and consequences of organism movement. The first part of the symposium includes two papers that use basic principles of statistical mechanics to draw conclusions about general patterns of movements by a large variety of foraging animals. The second part of the symposium includes four papers that focus on the general mechanisms of movement of different types.
Organizer:Ran Nathan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Co-organizer:Wayne M. Getz, University of California at Berkeley
Moderator:Marc Mangel, University of California at Santa Cruz
8:00 AMSYMP 22-1What is movement ecology?
Ran Nathan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Wayne M. Getz, University of California at Berkeley, Marcel Holyoak, University of California at Davis, Ronen Kadmon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Eloy Revilla, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Spanish Council for Scientific Research CSIC, David Saltz, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Peter E. Smouse, Rutgers University
8:25 AMSYMP 22-2The predictive ability of classifications of movement, and a retrospective and prospective look at lessons to be learned from how we study movement
Marcel Holyoak, University of California at Davis, Ran Nathan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
8:50 AMSYMP 22-3A mathematical framework for movement ecology that can be used to generate and analyze movement data
Wayne M. Getz, University of California at Berkeley, Eloy Revilla, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Spanish Council for Scientific Research CSIC, David Saltz, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
9:15 AMSYMP 22-5The importance of movement types and variance in the spread of epidemics
Amit Dolev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, David Saltz, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMSYMP 22-6Evolutionary insights for a statistical mechanics in movement ecology
Frederic Bartumeus, Princeton University, Simon A. Levin, Princeton University
10:15 AMSYMP 22-7Scale-free intermittent movements characterize animal searches: Analyses of high resolution search paths of four insect species
Andy M. Reynolds, Rothamsted Research
10:40 AMSYMP 22-9Dispersal: Toward unification across organisms and research traditions
Olav Skarpaas, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Joseph T. Dauer, The Pennsylvania State University, Carrie M. Schwarz, The Pennsylvania State University, Emily J. Rauschert, The Pennsylvania State University, Eelke Jongejans, The Pennsylvania State University, Randa Jabbour, The Pennsylvania State University, David A. Mortensen, The Pennsylvania State University, Scott A. Isard, The Pennsylvania State University, David A. Lieb, The Pennsylvania State University, Zeynep Sezen, The Pennsylvania State University, Andrew G. Hulting, The Pennsylvania State University, Matthew J. Ferrari, The Pennsylvania State University, Katriona Shea, The Pennsylvania State University, Eric S. Long, Seattle Pacific University
11:05 AMSYMP 22-10Movement ecology: Summary and synthesis
Ran Nathan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Wayne M. Getz, University of California at Berkeley

See more of Symposium

See more of The ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)