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Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic

  • Sarah C. Davidson
  • , Gil Bohrer
  • , Eliezer Gurarie
  • , Scott LaPoint
  • , Peter J. Mahoney
  • , Natalie T. Boelman
  • , Jan U.H. Eitel
  • , Laura R. Prugh
  • , Lee A. Vierling
  • , Jyoti Jennewein
  • , Emma Grier
  • , Ophélie Couriot
  • , Allicia P. Kelly
  • , Arjan J.H. Meddens
  • , Ruth Y. Oliver
  • , Roland Kays
  • , Martin Wikelski
  • , Tomas Aarvak
  • , Joshua T. Ackerman
  • , José A. Alves
  • Erin Bayne, Bryan Bedrosian, Jerrold L. Belant, Andrew M. Berdahl, Alicia M. Berlin, Dominique Berteaux, Joël Bêty, Dmitrijs Boiko, Travis L. Booms, Bridget L. Borg, Stan Boutin, W. Sean Boyd, Kane Brides, Stephen Brown, Victor N. Bulyuk, Kurt K. Burnham, David Cabot, Michael Casazza, Katherine Christie, Erica H. Craig, Shanti E. Davis, Tracy Davison, Dominic Demma, Christopher R. DeSorbo, Andrew Dixon, Robert Domenech, Götz Eichhorn, Kyle Elliott, Joseph R. Evenson, Klaus Michael Exo, Steven H. Ferguson, Wolfgang Fiedler, Aaron Fisk, Jérôme Fort, Alastair Franke, Mark R. Fuller, Stefan Garthe, Gilles Gauthier, Grant Gilchrist, Petr Glazov, Carrie E. Gray, David Grémillet, Larry Griffin, Michael T. Hallworth, Autumn Lynn Harrison, Holly L. Hennin, J. Mark Hipfner, James Hodson, James A. Johnson, Kyle Joly, Kimberly Jones, Todd E. Katzner, Jeff W. Kidd, Elly C. Knight, Michael N. Kochert, Andrea Kölzsch, Helmut Kruckenberg, Benjamin J. Lagassé, Sandra Lai, Jean François Lamarre, Richard B. Lanctot, Nicholas C. Larter, David A.M. Latham, Christopher J. Latty, James P. Lawler, Don Jean Léandri-Breton, Hansoo Lee, Stephen B. Lewis, Oliver P. Love, Jesper Madsen, Mark Maftei, Mark L. Mallory, Buck Mangipane, Mikhail Y. Markovets, Peter P. Marra, Rebecca McGuire, Carol L. McIntyre, Emily A. McKinnon, Tricia A. Miller, Sander Moonen, Tong Mu, Gerhard J.D.M. Müskens, Janet Ng, Kerry L. Nicholson, Ingar Jostein Øien, Cory Overton, Patricia A. Owen, Allison Patterson, Aevar Petersen, Ivan Pokrovsky, Luke L. Powell, Rui Prieto, Petra Quillfeldt, Jennie Rausch, Kelsey Russell, Sarah T. Saalfeld, Hans Schekkerman, Joel A. Schmutz, Philipp Schwemmer, Dale R. Seip, Adam Shreading, Mónica A. Silva, Brian W. Smith, Fletcher Smith, Jeff P. Smith, Katherine R.S. Snell, Aleksandr Sokolov, Vasiliy Sokolov, Diana V. Solovyeva, Mathew S. Sorum, Grigori Tertitski, J. F. Therrien, Kasper Thorup, T. Lee Tibbitts, Ingrid Tulp, Brian D. Uher-Koch, Rob S.A. van Bemmelen, Steven van Wilgenburg, Andrew L. von Duyke, Jesse L. Watson, Bryan D. Watts, Judy A. Williams, Matthew T. Wilson, James R. Wright, Michael A. Yates, David J. Yurkowski, Ramūnas Žydelis, Mark Hebblewhite
  • Ohio State University
  • Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • University of Konstanz
  • University of Maryland, College Park
  • University of Montana
  • Black Rock Forest
  • Columbia University
  • University of Washington
  • University of Idaho
  • National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC)
  • Government of the Northwest Territories
  • Washington State University Pullman
  • Yale University
  • North Carolina State University
  • BirdLife Norway
  • United States Geological Survey
  • University of Aveiro
  • University of Iceland
  • University of Alberta
  • Teton Raptor Center
  • SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
  • Université du Québec à Rimouski
  • Latvian National Museum of Natural History
  • University of Latvia
  • Latvian Swan Research Society
  • Alaska Department of Fish and Game
  • Environment and Climate Change Canada
  • Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust
  • Manomet Inc.
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
  • High Arctic Institute
  • University College Cork
  • Aquila Environmental
  • High Arctic Gull Research Group
  • Biodiversity Research Institute
  • Reneco International Wildlife Consultants LLC
  • Raptor View Research Institute
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • McGill University
  • Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife
  • Institute for Avian Research “Vogelwarte Helgoland,”
  • Fisheries and Oceans Canada
  • University of Windsor
  • Université de La Rochelle
  • Arctic Raptor Project
  • Boise State University
  • Kiel University
  • Université Laval
  • Carleton University
  • University of Maine
  • University of Cape Town
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • University of Massachusetts
  • United States Fish & Wildlife Service
  • Kidd Biological Inc
  • Institute for Wetlands and Waterbird Research e.V. (IWWR)
  • University of Colorado Denver
  • Polar Knowledge Canada
  • Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research
  • Korea Institute of Environmental Ecology
  • Aarhus University
  • Acadia University
  • Georgetown University
  • Wildlife Conservation Society
  • University of Manitoba
  • Conservation Science Global
  • West Virginia University
  • Princeton University
  • Wageningen University & Research
  • Independent researcher
  • RAS - Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Far Eastern Branch
  • Durham University
  • University of Glasgow
  • University of the Azores
  • Justus Liebig University Giessen
  • Environment Yukon
  • SOVON Vogelonderzoek Nederland
  • Government of British Columbia
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  • Migratory Bird Management
  • College of William and Mary
  • Georgia Department of Natural Resources
  • HawkWatch International
  • H.T. Harvey and Associates
  • University of Copenhagen
  • RAS - Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch
  • Bureau Waardenburg
  • North Slope Borough
  • Earthspan Foundation
  • Ornitela UAB

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Abstract

The Arctic is entering a new ecological state, with alarming consequences for humanity. Animal-borne sensors offer a window into these changes. Although substantial animal tracking data from the Arctic and subarctic exist, most are difficult to discover and access. Here, we present the new Arctic Animal Movement Archive (AAMA), a growing collection of more than 200 standardized terrestrial and marine animal tracking studies from 1991 to the present. The AAMA supports public data discovery, preserves fundamental baseline data for the future, and facilitates efficient, collaborative data analysis. With AAMA-based case studies, we document climatic influences on the migration phenology of eagles, geographic differences in the adaptive response of caribou reproductive phenology to climate change, and species-specific changes in terrestrial mammal movement rates in response to increasing temperature.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)712-715
Number of pages4
JournalScience
Volume370
Issue number6517
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 6 2020

Funding

Funder number
1823498, 1545888, 631203, 273061

    UN SDGs

    This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

    1. SDG 13 - Climate Action
      SDG 13 Climate Action
    2. SDG 14 - Life Below Water
      SDG 14 Life Below Water

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