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Top-down control by consumers through consumption, injury, and risk effects are well-studied and well-incorporated into our understanding of food webs. Emerging evidence demonstrates that animals also have the potential to generate bottom-up effects through nutrient subsidies based on regeneration and transport. But these types of effects on biogeochemical processes and nutrient cycling are less-understood and less-integrated with ecosystem models. In this workshop, we plan to collect and synthesize examples of animal-mediated nutrient transport and potentially other mechanisms by which animal movement affects food webs including published work from long-term ecological research. We envision interested workshop participants collaborating with organizers on a conceptual manuscript highlighting case studies and outlining next directions for enhancing the spatiotemporal modeling of ecosystems by incorporating patterns, rates, and consequences of animal movement and nutrient transport.
