Authors: Harris, Nyeema;

Wildlife move through and within complex environments. Traditional assessments of external factors governing movement characteristics focused largely on biophysical attributes. But with an increasingly crowded planet, its crucial to also evaluate of socio-scapes comprised on human behaviors, cultures, values, and governance schemes that create heterogeneous, dynamic environment that organisms must also navigate. How humans interact with the natural world can create barriers to movement and reduce connectivity, alter habitat quality that result in avoidance, and produce areas of high risks. Additionally, humans can be recipients of provisioning and biocultural services associated with the movement of animals. For example, pulsed resources made available during migratory routes are beneficial for indigenous communities and the local tourism industry. However, disease exposure and human-wildlife conflict also emerge from movement patterns. These feedbacks with humans as drivers and humans as recipients highlight the need in building infrastructure to explicitly incorporate social dimensions into animal movement ecology. Only by coupling databases of social and natural processes and investing in technologies that gather both types of information will we have the tools necessary to promote coexistence for a sustainable future.