Towards an integrated science of movement: converging research on animal movement ecology and human mobility science
Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: There is long-standing scientific interest in understanding purposeful movement by animals and humans. Traditionally, collecting data on individual moving entities was difficult and time-consuming, limiting scientific progress. The growth of location-aware and other geospatial technologies for capturing, managing and analyzing moving objects data are shattering these limitations, leading to revolutions in animal movement ecology and human mobility science. Despite parallel transitions towards massive individual-level data collected automatically via sensors, there is little scientific cross-fertilization across the animal and human divide. There are potential synergies from converging these separate domains towards an integrated science of movement. This paper discusses the data-driven revolutions in the animal movement ecology and human mobility science, their contrasting worldviews and, as examples of complementarity, transdisciplinary questions that span both fields. We also identify research challenges that should be met to develop an integrated science of movement trajectories.
Language: English
Subfield: Transportation
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Awards: Conferences: Advancing Movement and Mobility Science by Bridging Research on Human Mobility and Animal Movement Ecology, G2271661609, Workshop: Linking remote animal detection and movement data with macrosystem environmental datasets and networks; September, 2018; Front Royal, VA, Complete the Streets 3 Ways: Effects on activity and BMI, Collaborative proposal: ABI Sustaining: The Environmental-Data Automated Track Annotation (Env-DATA) system
OpenAlex ID: W2909556308