The Project
Animal movement has important consequences for the fate of animal populations: it can make the difference between survival and extinction. Seemingly small, individual movements translate at larger scales into the spatial dynamics of entire populations. Whether animals migrate across continents or simply shift their activity between neighboring resource patches, the combination of individual movements leads to flows that reconfigure populations. These flows ultimately dictate the species’ distribution. PopFlow studies these individual animal movements to understand wildlife populations.
PopFlow studies how individual movements and their intrinsic and extrinsic determinants lead to population flows across the landscape.
As part of this work, we:
1. Develop realistic and efficient OPSCR models to quantify individual movements at the scale of entire populations.
2. Quantify population-level movement patterns (”flows”) and their drivers.
3. Identify barriers to movement of individuals throughout populations.
4. Link individual movements with population dynamics to map population flows.
In doing so, the project will not only foster a deeper understanding of large carnivore ecology and of the functioning of wildlife populations, but it will also generate practical guidelines and tools to study animal movement at multiple scales.
NMBU Team Members
External Team Members
Henrik Brøseth
Norsk institutt for naturforskning
Wei Zhang
University of Glasgow
Perry de Valpine
UC Berkeley
Daniel Turek
Williams College
Olivier Gimenez
Centre D'Ecologie Fonctionnelle & Evolutive
Jenny Mattisson
NINA
Barbara Zimmerman
Høgskolen i Innlandet
Maëlis Kervellec
Centre D'Ecologie Fonctionnelle & Evolutive
Marie-Pierre Etienne
Agrocampus Ouest
Collaborators
