- About us
- Research
- Students & Teaching
- Seminars & Events
- Directories
- Booking Rooms & Equipment
- עברית
The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Science
Nathan Ran
Prof. Ran Nathan
Movement Ecology
Ecology, Evolution & Behavior
Personal Information
Research Interests
Theoretical and applied population and community ecology, and aspects of movement ecology, in particular. Ecology and evolution of dispersal using an integrated theoretical-empirical approach, spatiotemporal population dynamics, Mechanistic models. Gene flow; frugivory plant-animal interactions, bird migration, ornithology, rarity, macroecology, conservation biology.
Dissertation Topics
- Movement ecology: A new transdisciplinary paradigm to study movement of organisms across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
- Lifetime tracks of organisms, their underlying mechanisms, their use to assess the species' ecology and biology, and what elements are most critical for fitness.
- Ecology, evolution and behavior of various phenomena related to movement – including migration, search, foraging, dispersal, wandering, exploration, navigation and spread of diseases – in birds and fruit bats.
- The relationships between sociality and social rank, movement, performance and fitness.
- Development of new tracking devices and data analysis tools for movement ecology.
- Management of huge datasets in the emerging Big Data era of movement ecology.
- Spreading of invasive plants and long-distance dispersal.
