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CitationMather, M. E., Taylor, R. B., Smith, J. M., & Boles, K. M. (2025). Integrated patterns of residence and movement create testable hypotheses about fish feeding migrations. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 5951. (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-79627-1)
TitleIntegrated patterns of residency and movement create testable hypotheses about fish feeding migrations
Publication Year2025
Volume15
Pages5951
Keywordsforaging, migration, striped bass, movement, testable alternative hypotheses
AbstractDeveloping and testing alternate hypotheses about patterns, mechanisms, and consequences of movement in geographically-large, heterogeneous, natural systems can advance the scientific understanding of animal migration and benefit the conservation of most mobile species. Within organismal movement trajectories, different combinations of residence and movement are predicted from existing ecological theories (e.g., long distance migration, site fidelity, central place foraging, ideal free distribution, habitat shifts). However, testing these conceptually-based, spatially-explicit hypotheses about animal movement and migration in the field can be logistically challenging. Here our purpose is to introduce Resmo, a framework of metrics and analyses that integrate site-specific RESidence and across-site MOvements. We illustrate the ecological insights from this framework using the empirical example of coastal Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) during their seasonal feeding migration. Our use of
Official CitationMather, M. E., Taylor, R. B., Smith, J. M., & Boles, K. M. (2025). Integrated patterns of residence and movement create testable hypotheses about fish feeding migrations. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 5951.
Links (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-79627-1)