Understanding Insect Movement: From Individual Paths to Population Patterns
A special issue of Insects (ISSN 2075-4450). This special issue belongs to the section "Other Arthropods and General Topics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 August 2022) | Viewed by 487
Special Issue Editors
Interests: spatial ecology; mathematical modelling of ecological phenomena; spatio-temporal dynamics of animal population; biological invasion; individual-based modelling; random walks; spatial pattern recognition and analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Movement of insects and other arthropods under various conditions is a ubiquitous phenomenon which has important implications for nature conservation, agriculture, forestry, monitoring, pest control, etc. Research on animal movement has been widespread in past decades and is the subject of many publications yet, despite being one of key questions in spatial ecology, there still is no clear understanding of generic movement mechanisms and how they affect spatial distributions of animal populations. This Special Issue will bring together original and review articles that deal with various aspects of arthropod movements and their consequences at population level at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Both empirical and mathematical modelling papers are welcome.
Dr. Natalia B. Petrovskaya
Dr. Andy Reynolds
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- insect movement
- movement mechanisms
- movement strategies
- dispersal
- spatial patterns
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