'geographic movements' is a correct and usable term in written English.
It is a term that is used to describe the changing positions of human societies in physical space over time, such as those resulting from migration, colonization, or land reclamation. For example, "The geographic movements of the last century led to a dramatic shift in population composition in many areas around the world."
"Here we have the first direct glimpse of the geographic movements of early hominids, and it appears the females preferentially moved away from their residential groups," said lead author, Sandi Copeland at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig.
The DNA profiles we use in species identification, and the databases that we have established, are the same genotypes and samples that can be used to assess biological questions about species such as moose, wolves, and bears and their geographic movements, levels of genetic connectivity or gene flow among different regions, and overall levels of genetic diversity.
New tracking technologies, particularly smaller and smaller satellite transmitters - and more recently, Geolocators (which combine light-level loggers with a GPS unit in one tiny package) - have been applied to migrating birds and revealed with great detail their complex geographic movements.
We simply will not be able to recognize many genuine cases of ancient vicariance by virtue of subsequent geographic movements.
However, the geographic movements of many non-human influenza hosts, via migration or trade, make it possible to identify surrogate sources of information.
Increasing availability of high-resolution temporal and spatial paleoclimatic data have greatly aided and improved fine-scale modeling of species' historical geographic movements.
These and other causes of geographic movement are also applicable to hundreds of thousands of Africans migrating from countries of their continent.
Several factors could explain the observed spatial dynamics besides the geographic movement of DENV.
Geographic movement of other infectious diseases has been well documented; it is often linked to legal or illegal movement of natural host animals for a variety of purposes.
Kriging analysis, which illustrates geographic movement, showed that the starting areas of peak ILI activity were mostly found in western Japan.
This time-period was also mapped in GIS to demonstrate how the automated method captured geographic movement more precisely than the daily diary, see Figure 2B.
