The Project

• Description

  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.

  

  

  

• Objectives

  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.

• Team Members

  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