Sustainable Movement Ecology and Wildlife Conservation
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability, Biodiversity and Conservation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 3801
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wetland plants foraged by birds; evolution of sedges; ecosystem health and integration
Interests: conservation biology; avian ecology;ornithology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Movement ecology addresses where, when, and why species move. The incorporation of knowledge on species movements into conservation practice remains challenging, yet promising, especially from the perspective of ecosystem sustainability, as it facilitates our decision making to be more adaptive and flexible. With the rapid advances in monitoring technology and analytical methodologies over the last decade, this field has yielded a huge amount of movement data covering a diverse range of taxa. There is an urgent need to create new criteria for data disposition and interpretation. Meanwhile, the growing public concerns about sustainable development and critical issues such as carbon imprints and climate change also call for updating existing models and theories to make movement ecology more open and influential.
Based on these considerations, we propose this Special Issue entitled "Sustainable Movement Ecology and Wildlife Conservation”, aiming to promote scientific communication about the recent advances in perspectives, frameworks, or case studies linking movement ecology and sustainable wildlife management. There is no limit on organism taxa or research regions. Papers featuring the environmental impacts and social–economic influences of movement ecology will be processed with priority. Potential research topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Long-term movement ecology research cases and their implications for sustainable conservation efforts.
- Habitat resource availability and quality and their influences on wildlife movement, especially under the context of global climate change and/or anthropogenic disturbance.
- The evolution of wildlife movement strategies, such as sedentism, migration, nomadism, and adaptive management.
- Integrative frameworks or practical cases that facilitate and/or enhance wildlife movement characteristics, e.g., corridors, pathways, and stopover sites.
- Wildlife movement as an agency of energy flow (e.g., predator–prey, plant–pollinator, herbivore–vegetation) and its effect on the ecosystem carbon budget.
- Scale dynamics of wildlife movement and how to promote transboundary conservation efforts.
- Evaluation systems of conservation effectiveness and its relation to long-term wildlife movement monitoring.
- How to effectively communicate scientific knowledge of wildlife movement to non-academic audiences and promote the related decision making, especially under the current explosion of information.
- Perspectives or frameworks on the standardization and/or disposition of the emerging big data of movement ecology.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Yu Ning
Dr. Gang Liu
Dr. Shubin Dong
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- movement ecology
- sustainability
- wildlife conservation
- habitat
- adaptive management
- scale
- communication
- evaluation
- big data
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