Ran Nathan (Hebrew: רן נתן; born 1962) is an Israeli biologist, ornithologist, and academic.
[6] His work focuses on various aspects of movement ecology, including dispersal (and long-distance dispersal in particular), migration, foraging, navigation, flight aerodynamics, animal behavior, social interactions, invasive species, disease spread by avian species, gene flow, plant-animal interactions and plant recruitment.
[10] In an interview for Science Watch (October 2010),[11] Nathan revealed that the idea to establish movement ecology as a new field of research was born in 2002, when he was a first-year faculty member supervising one student on seed dispersal and another on bird migration, facing the question “what name should I call my research group”?
In 2008, he edited a Special Feature on Movement Ecology[13] for the Proceedings of the National Academy of USA.
[14] This collection included a perspective paper introducing the basic concepts and a framework for integrating movement research.