AUTHOR=Fraser Kevin C. , Davies Kimberley T. A. , Davy Christina M. , Ford Adam T. , Flockhart D. T. Tyler , Martins Eduardo G. TITLE=Tracking the Conservation Promise of Movement Ecology JOURNAL=Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution VOLUME=6 YEAR=2018 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/articles/10.3389/fevo.2018.00150 DOI=10.3389/fevo.2018.00150 ISSN=2296-701X ABSTRACT=
From butterflies to elephants, the rapidly developing science of movement ecology is providing increasingly detailed spatio-temporal data on a wide array of mobile animals. Thus, this discipline also holds great promise for improving the conservation of wildlife. To measure progress toward this promise, we investigated the degree to which movement ecology research is connected to conservation goals as well as the proportion of studies that were incorporated into federal and international status assessments for mobile species at risk. We examined 13,349 “movement ecology” papers published between 1990 and 2014 and found that explicit connections to conservation and management were made in 35% (