Movement Ecology Lab @ CEAB

Bartumeus Lab is founded in January 2010 as a highly collaborative and multidisciplinary research lab to address fundamental and applied questions in relation to animal movement and dispersal processes. The Lab exists within the Biogeodynamcis and Biodiversity Group and is fully-integrated at the Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB-CSIC), a well-grounded aquatic research center from the Spanish Research Council (CSIC). The Lab is tightly committed with the empirical work developed at CEAB, but it is also involved in national and international collaborations.

Movement ecology is a cross-disciplinary research field that integrates systems biology, behavioral ecology, landscape ecology, spatial ecology, theoretical ecology, and evolutionary biology. Beyond statistical movement description and quantification, of most relevance is to identify and up-scale the biological mechanisms driving movement patterns. Such mechanisms may operate at genetic, neurological, physiological and/or ecological level (interaction with the environment or other organisms).