Movement patterns related to spatial structures

摘要: The ability of individuals to move in space, although highly variable between species, is a general characteristic all organisms. In fact the very persistence species on micro-evolutionary time-scale requires escape from natural, long-term environmental changes (e.g. climate changes) (Holt, 1990). At shorter (ecological) time-scales, movement capacities organisms are universally important ecological phenemona (Wiens et al., 1993). For this reason, study patterns deserves key position within disciplines ecology.