Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic.
Sarah C DavidsonGil BohrerEliezer GurarieScott D LaPointPeter J MahoneyNatalie T BoelmanJan U H EitelLaura R PrughLee A VierlingJyoti S JenneweinEmma GrierOphélie CouriotAllicia P KellyArjan J H MeddensRuth Y OliverRoland KaysMartin WikelskiTomas AarvakJoshua T AckermanJosé A AlvesErin M BayneBryan BedrosianJerrold L BelantAndrew M BerdahlAlicia M BerlinDominique BerteauxJoël BêtyDmitrijs BoikoTravis L BoomsBridget L BorgStan BoutinW Sean BoydKane BridesStephen C BrownVictor N BulyukKurt K BurnhamDavid CabotMichael L CasazzaKatherine S ChristieErica H CraigShanti E DavisTracy DavisonDominic DemmaChristopher R DeSorboAndrew DixonRobert DomenechGötz EichhornKyle ElliottJoseph R EvensonKlaus-Michael ExoSteven H FergusonWolfgang FiedlerAaron FiskJérôme FortAlastair FrankeMark R FullerStefan GartheGilles GauthierGrant GilchristPeter M GlazovCarrie E GrayDavid GrémilletLarry GriffinMichael T HallworthAutumn-Lynn HarrisonHolly L HenninJ Mark HipfnerJames HodsonJames A JohnsonKyle JolyKimberly JonesTodd E KatznerJeff W KiddElly C KnightMichael N KochertAndrea KölzschHelmut KruckenbergBenjamin J LagasséSandra LaiJean-François LamarreRichard B LanctotNicholas C LarterA David M LathamChristopher J LattyJames P LawlerDon-Jean Léandri-BretonHansoo LeeStephen B LewisOliver P LoveJesper MadsenMark MafteiMark L MalloryBuck MangipaneMikhail Y MarkovetsPeter P MarraRebecca McGuireCarol L McIntyreEmily A McKinnonTricia A MillerSander MoonenTong MuGerhard J D M MüskensJanet NgKerry L NicholsonIngar Jostein ØienOverton Cory TPatricia A OwenAllison PattersonAevar PetersenIvan PokrovskyLuke L PowellRui PrietoPetra QuillfeldtJennie RauschKelsey RussellSarah T SaalfeldHans SchekkermanJoel A SchmutzPhilipp SchwemmerDale R SeipAdam ShreadingMónica A SilvaBrian W SmithFletcher M SmithJeff P SmithKatherine R S SnellAleksandr A SokolovVasiliy A SokolovDiana V SolovyevaMathew S SorumGrigori TertitskiJean-François TherrienKasper ThorupT Lee TibbittsIngrid TulpBrian D Uher-KochRob S A van BemmelenSteven Van WilgenburgAndrew L Von DuykeJesse L WatsonBryan D WattsJudy A WilliamsMatthew T WilsonJames R WrightMichael A YatesDavid J YurkowskiRamūnas ŽydelisMark HebblewhitePublished in: Science (New York, N.Y.) (2020)
The Arctic is entering a new ecological state, with alarming consequences for humanity. Animal-borne sensors offer a window into these changes. Although substantial animal tracking data from the Arctic and subarctic exist, most are difficult to discover and access. Here, we present the new Arctic Animal Movement Archive (AAMA), a growing collection of more than 200 standardized terrestrial and marine animal tracking studies from 1991 to the present. The AAMA supports public data discovery, preserves fundamental baseline data for the future, and facilitates efficient, collaborative data analysis. With AAMA-based case studies, we document climatic influences on the migration phenology of eagles, geographic differences in the adaptive response of caribou reproductive phenology to climate change, and species-specific changes in terrestrial mammal movement rates in response to increasing temperature.