The Movement Ecology of Mutualism (CSEE/ESA 2022, OOS17)

Abstract

The study of whole organism movement has developed modern frameworks for understanding individual and population movement across space. Recent thought has begun to push the boundaries of understanding movement beyond individuals and populations to sets of interacting species. Interspecific interactions can influence individual movement either before or after the interaction, and movement can occur individually or jointly. Mutualism is an interspecific interaction where whole organism movement plays a central, but overlooked role (Shaw et al. 2021). Although ecologists typically recognize the importance of movement in the subset of mutualisms where one partner ANNUAL MEETING