Non‐optimal animal movement in human‐altered landscapes

Summary I synthesize the understanding of the relationship between landscape structure and animal movement in human‐modified landscapes. The variety of landscape structures is first classified into four categories: continuous habitat, patchy habitat with high‐quality matrix, patchy habitat with low‐quality matrix, and patchy, ephemeral habitat. Using this simplification I group the range of evolved movement parameters into four categories or movement types. I then discuss how these movement types interact with current human‐caused landscape changes, and how this often results in non‐optimal movement. From this synthesis I develop a hypothesis that predicts the relative importance of the different…