Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements

Marlee A Tucker; Katrin Böhning-Gaese; William F Fagan; John M Fryxell; Bram Van Moorter; Susan C Alberts; Abdullahi H Ali; Andrew M Allen; Nina Attias; Tal Avgar; Hattie Bartlam-Brooks; Buuveibaatar Bayarbaatar; Jerrold L Belant; Alessandra Bertassoni; Dean Beyer; Laura Bidner; Floris M van Beest; Stephen Blake; Niels Blaum; Chloe Bracis; Danielle Brown; P J Nico de Bruyn; Francesca Cagnacci; Justin M Calabrese; Constança Camilo-Alves; Simon Chamaillé-Jammes; Andre Chiaradia; Sarah C Davidson; Todd Dennis; Stephen DeStefano; Duane Diefenbach; Iain Douglas-Hamilton; Julian Fennessy; Claudia Fichtel; Wolfgang Fiedler; Christina Fischer; Ilya Fischhoff; Christen H Fleming; Adam T Ford; Susanne A Fritz; Benedikt Gehr; Jacob R Goheen; Eliezer Gurarie; Mark Hebblewhite; Marco Heurich; A J Mark Hewison; Christian Hof; Edward Hurme; Lynne A Isbell; René Janssen; Florian Jeltsch; Petra Kaczensky; Adam Kane; Peter M Kappeler; Matthew Kauffman; Roland Kays; Duncan Kimuyu; Flavia Koch; Bart Kranstauber; Scott LaPoint; Peter Leimgruber; John D C Linnell; Pascual López-López; A Catherine Markham; Jenny Mattisson; Emilia Patricia Medici; Ugo Mellone; Evelyn Merrill; Guilherme de Miranda Mourão; Ronaldo G Morato; Nicolas Morellet; Thomas A Morrison; Samuel L Díaz-Muñoz; Atle Mysterud; Dejid Nandintsetseg; Ran Nathan; Aidin Niamir; John Odden; Robert B O'Hara; Luiz Gustavo R Oliveira-Santos; Kirk A Olson; Bruce D Patterson; Rogerio Cunha de Paula; Luca Pedrotti; Björn Reineking; Martin Rimmler; Tracey L Rogers; Christer Moe Rolandsen; Christopher S Rosenberry; Daniel I Rubenstein; Kamran Safi; Sonia Saïd; Nir Sapir; Hall Sawyer; Niels Martin Schmidt; Nuria Selva; Agnieszka Sergiel; Enkhtuvshin Shiilegdamba; João Paulo Silva; Navinder Singh; Erling J Solberg; Orr Spiegel; Olav Strand; Siva Sundaresan; Wiebke Ullmann; Ulrich Voigt; Jake Wall; David Wattles; Martin Wikelski; Christopher C Wilmers; John W Wilson; George Wittemyer; Filip Zięba; Tomasz Zwijacz-Kozica; Thomas Mueller

doi:10.1126/science.aam9712

Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements

Science. 2018 Jan 26;359(6374):466-469. doi: 10.1126/science.aam9712.

Authors

Marlee A Tucker^{1

2}, Katrin Böhning-Gaese^{3

2}, William F Fagan^{4

5}, John M Fryxell⁶, Bram Van Moorter⁷, Susan C Alberts⁸, Abdullahi H Ali⁹, Andrew M Allen^{10

11}, Nina Attias¹², Tal Avgar¹³, Hattie Bartlam-Brooks¹⁴, Buuveibaatar Bayarbaatar¹⁵, Jerrold L Belant¹⁶, Alessandra Bertassoni¹⁷, Dean Beyer¹⁸, Laura Bidner¹⁹, Floris M van Beest²⁰, Stephen Blake^{21

22}, Niels Blaum²³, Chloe Bracis^{3

2}, Danielle Brown²⁴, P J Nico de Bruyn²⁵, Francesca Cagnacci^{26

27}, Justin M Calabrese^{4

28}, Constança Camilo-Alves^{29

30}, Simon Chamaillé-Jammes³¹, Andre Chiaradia^{32

33}, Sarah C Davidson^{34

21}, Todd Dennis³⁵, Stephen DeStefano³⁶, Duane Diefenbach³⁷, Iain Douglas-Hamilton^{38

39}, Julian Fennessy⁴⁰, Claudia Fichtel⁴¹, Wolfgang Fiedler²¹, Christina Fischer⁴², Ilya Fischhoff⁴³, Christen H Fleming^{4

28}, Adam T Ford⁴⁴, Susanne A Fritz^{3

2}, Benedikt Gehr⁴⁵, Jacob R Goheen⁴⁶, Eliezer Gurarie^{4

47}, Mark Hebblewhite⁴⁸, Marco Heurich^{49

50}, A J Mark Hewison⁵¹, Christian Hof³, Edward Hurme⁴, Lynne A Isbell^{19

52}, René Janssen⁵³, Florian Jeltsch²³, Petra Kaczensky^{7

54}, Adam Kane⁵⁵, Peter M Kappeler⁴¹, Matthew Kauffman⁵⁶, Roland Kays^{57

58}, Duncan Kimuyu⁵⁹, Flavia Koch^{41

60}, Bart Kranstauber⁴⁵, Scott LaPoint^{21

61}, Peter Leimgruber²⁸, John D C Linnell⁷, Pascual López-López⁶², A Catherine Markham⁶³, Jenny Mattisson⁷, Emilia Patricia Medici^{64

65}, Ugo Mellone⁶⁶, Evelyn Merrill¹³, Guilherme de Miranda Mourão⁶⁷, Ronaldo G Morato⁶⁸, Nicolas Morellet⁵¹, Thomas A Morrison⁶⁹, Samuel L Díaz-Muñoz^{70

71}, Atle Mysterud⁷², Dejid Nandintsetseg^{3

2}, Ran Nathan⁷³, Aidin Niamir³, John Odden⁷⁴, Robert B O'Hara^{3

75}, Luiz Gustavo R Oliveira-Santos⁷⁶, Kirk A Olson¹⁵, Bruce D Patterson⁷⁷, Rogerio Cunha de Paula⁶⁸, Luca Pedrotti⁷⁸, Björn Reineking^{79

80}, Martin Rimmler⁸¹, Tracey L Rogers⁸², Christer Moe Rolandsen⁷, Christopher S Rosenberry⁸³, Daniel I Rubenstein⁸⁴, Kamran Safi^{21

85}, Sonia Saïd⁸⁶, Nir Sapir⁸⁷, Hall Sawyer⁸⁸, Niels Martin Schmidt^{20

89}, Nuria Selva⁹⁰, Agnieszka Sergiel⁹⁰, Enkhtuvshin Shiilegdamba¹⁵, João Paulo Silva^{91

92

93}, Navinder Singh¹⁰, Erling J Solberg⁷, Orr Spiegel⁹⁴, Olav Strand⁷, Siva Sundaresan⁹⁵, Wiebke Ullmann²³, Ulrich Voigt⁹⁶, Jake Wall³⁸, David Wattles³⁶, Martin Wikelski^{21

85}, Christopher C Wilmers⁹⁷, John W Wilson⁹⁸, George Wittemyer^{38

99}, Filip Zięba¹⁰⁰, Tomasz Zwijacz-Kozica¹⁰⁰, Thomas Mueller^{1

2

28}

Affiliations

¹ Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, 60325 Frankfurt (Main), Germany. tucker.marlee@gmail.com thomas.mueller@senckenberg.de.
² Department of Biological Sciences, Goethe University, 60438 Frankfurt (Main), Germany.
³ Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, 60325 Frankfurt (Main), Germany.
⁴ Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
⁵ SESYNC, University of Maryland, Annapolis, MD 21401, USA.
⁶ Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada.
⁷ Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, P.O. Box 5685 Torgard, NO-7485 Trondheim, Norway.
⁸ Departments of Biology and Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
⁹ Hirola Conservation Programme, Garissa, Kenya.
¹⁰ Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå 90183, Sweden.
¹¹ Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Department of Animal Ecology and Physiology, Radboud University, 6500GL Nijmegen, Netherlands.
¹² Ecology and Conservation Graduate Program, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil.
¹³ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
¹⁴ Structure and Motion Laboratory, Royal Veterinary College, University of London, London NW1 0TU, UK.
¹⁵ Wildlife Conservation Society, Mongolia Program, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
¹⁶ Carnivore Ecology Laboratory, Forest and Wildlife Research Center, Mississippi State University, Box 9690, Mississippi State, MS, USA.
¹⁷ Animal Biology Postgraduate Program, São Paulo State University, São José do Rio Preto, SP 15054-000, Brazil.
¹⁸ Michigan Department of Natural Resources, 1990 U.S. 41 South, Marquette, MI 49855, USA.
¹⁹ Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
²⁰ Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark.
²¹ Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Vogelwarte Radolfzell, D-78315 Radolfzell, Germany.
²² Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, NY 10460, USA.
²³ University of Potsdam, Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation, 14476 Potsdam, Germany.
²⁴ Department of Biology, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN 37132, USA.
²⁵ Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Hatfield 0028, Gauteng, South Africa.
²⁶ Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, 38010 San Michele all'Adige (TN), Italy.
²⁷ Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
²⁸ Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Front Royal, VA, USA.
²⁹ Departamento de Fitotecnia, Universidade de Évora, Pólo da Mitra, 7002-554 Évora, Portugal.
³⁰ ICAAM-Institute of Mediterranean Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Évora, Évora, Portugal.
³¹ Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive UMR 5175, CNRS-Université de Montpellier-Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier-EPHE, 34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France.
³² Phillip Island Nature Parks, Victoria, Australia.
³³ School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
³⁴ Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
³⁵ Department of Biology, Fiji National University, P.O. Box 5529, Natabua, Lautoka, Fiji Islands.
³⁶ U.S. Geological Survey, Massachusetts Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
³⁷ U.S. Geological Survey, Pennsylvania Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
³⁸ Save the Elephants, P.O. Box 54667, Nairobi 00200, Kenya.
³⁹ Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK.
⁴⁰ Giraffe Conservation Foundation, P.O. Box 86099, Eros, Namibia.
⁴¹ German Primate Center, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Unit, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
⁴² Restoration Ecology, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technische Universität München, 85354 Freising, Germany.
⁴³ Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY 12545, USA.
⁴⁴ Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, Unit 2: Biology, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7, Canada.
⁴⁵ Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
⁴⁶ Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA.
⁴⁷ School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
⁴⁸ Wildlife Biology Program, Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA.
⁴⁹ Bavarian Forest National Park, Department of Conservation and Research, 94481 Grafenau, Germany.
⁵⁰ Chair of Wildlife Ecology and Management, Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.
⁵¹ CEFS, Université de Toulouse, INRA, Castanet Tolosan, France.
⁵² Animal Behavior Graduate Group, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
⁵³ Bionet Natuuronderzoek, 6171EL Stein, Netherlands.
⁵⁴ Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, A-1160 Vienna, Austria.
⁵⁵ School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
⁵⁶ U.S. Geological Survey, Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA.
⁵⁷ North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC 27601, USA.
⁵⁸ Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA.
⁵⁹ Department of Natural Resource Management, Karatina University, P.O. Box 1957-10101, Karatina, Kenya.
⁶⁰ Department of Psychology, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M4, Canada.
⁶¹ Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA.
⁶² Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Terrestrial Vertebrates Group, University of Valencia, E-46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain.
⁶³ Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.
⁶⁴ International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Species Survival Commission (SSC) Tapir Specialist Group (TSG), Rua Licuala, 622, Damha 1, Campo Grande, CEP: 79046-150, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.
⁶⁵ IPÊ (Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas; Institute for Ecological Research), Caixa Postal 47, Nazaré Paulista, CEP: 12960-000, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁶⁶ Vertebrates Zoology Research Group, Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales y Recursos Naturales, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
⁶⁷ Embrapa Pantanal, Corumbá, MS 79320-900, Brazil.
⁶⁸ National Research Center for Carnivores Conservation, Chico Mendes Institute for the Conservation of Biodiversity, Atibaia-SP 12952-011, Brazil.
⁶⁹ Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
⁷⁰ Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Biology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA.
⁷¹ Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
⁷² Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Blindern, NO-0316 Oslo, Norway.
⁷³ Movement Ecology Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
⁷⁴ Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, NO-0349 Oslo, Norway.
⁷⁵ Department of Mathematical Sciences and Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491 Trondheim, Norway.
⁷⁶ Department of Ecology, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, MS 79070-900, Brazil.
⁷⁷ Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL 60605, USA.
⁷⁸ Consorzio Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio, Bormio (Sondrio), Italy.
⁷⁹ Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Irstea, UR LESSEM, BP 76, 38402 St-Martin-d'Hères, France.
⁸⁰ University of Bayreuth, BayCEER, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany.
⁸¹ Nationalpark Schwarzwald, 77889 Seebach, Germany.
⁸² Evolution and Ecology Research Centre and School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
⁸³ Pennsylvania Game Commission, Harrisburg, PA 17110, USA.
⁸⁴ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
⁸⁵ Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, 78467 Konstanz, Germany.
⁸⁶ Directorate of Studies and Expertise (DRE), Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage, Montfort, 01330 Birieux, France.
⁸⁷ Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, University of Haifa, 3498838 Haifa, Israel.
⁸⁸ Western Ecosystems Technology Inc., Laramie, WY 82070, USA.
⁸⁹ Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
⁹⁰ Institute of Nature Conservation Polish Academy of Sciences, 31-120 Krakow, Poland.
⁹¹ REN Biodiversity Chair, CIBIO/InBIO Associate Laboratory, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal.
⁹² Centre for Applied Ecology "Prof. Baeta Neves"/InBIO Associate Laboratory, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisbon, Portugal.
⁹³ Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisbon, Portugal.
⁹⁴ Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
⁹⁵ Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance, Jackson, WY 83001, USA.
⁹⁶ Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover-Foundation, 30173 Hannover, Germany.
⁹⁷ Center for Integrated Spatial Research, Environmental Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA.
⁹⁸ Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Hatfield 0028, South Africa.
⁹⁹ Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA.
¹⁰⁰ Tatra National Park, 34-500 Zakopane, Poland.

PMID: 29371471
DOI: 10.1126/science.aam9712

Abstract

Animal movement is fundamental for ecosystem functioning and species survival, yet the effects of the anthropogenic footprint on animal movements have not been estimated across species. Using a unique GPS-tracking database of 803 individuals across 57 species, we found that movements of mammals in areas with a comparatively high human footprint were on average one-half to one-third the extent of their movements in areas with a low human footprint. We attribute this reduction to behavioral changes of individual animals and to the exclusion of species with long-range movements from areas with higher human impact. Global loss of vagility alters a key ecological trait of animals that affects not only population persistence but also ecosystem processes such as predator-prey interactions, nutrient cycling, and disease transmission.

MeSH terms

Animal Migration*
Animals
Geographic Information Systems
Human Activities*
Humans
Mammals*

Associated data

Dryad/10.5061/dryad.st350