Causes, consequences, and conservation of ungulate migration

MJ Kauffman, EO Aikens, S Esmaeili… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Our understanding of ungulate migration is advancing rapidly due to innovations in modern
animal tracking. Herein, we review and synthesize nearly seven decades of work on …

Movement‐mediated community assembly and coexistence

UE Schlägel, V Grimm, N Blaum, P Colangeli… - Biological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Organismal movement is ubiquitous and facilitates important ecological mechanisms that
drive community and metacommunity composition and hence biodiversity. In most existing …

Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements

MA Tucker, K Böhning-Gaese, WF Fagan, JM Fryxell… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Animal movement is fundamental for ecosystem functioning and species survival, yet the
effects of the anthropogenic footprint on animal movements have not been estimated across …

Is ungulate migration culturally transmitted? Evidence of social learning from translocated animals

BR Jesmer, JA Merkle, JR Goheen, EO Aikens, JL Beck… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Ungulate migrations are assumed to stem from learning and cultural transmission of
information regarding seasonal distribution of forage, but this hypothesis has not been …

Memory and resource tracking drive blue whale migrations

B Abrahms, EL Hazen, EO Aikens… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
In terrestrial systems, the green wave hypothesis posits that migrating animals can enhance
foraging opportunities by tracking phenological variation in high-quality forage across space …

Longest terrestrial migrations and movements around the world

K Joly, E Gurarie, MS Sorum, P Kaczensky… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Long-distance terrestrial migrations are imperiled globally. We determined both round-trip
migration distances (straight-line measurements between migratory end points) and total …

Spatial memory shapes migration and its benefits: evidence from a large herbivore

JA Merkle, H Sawyer, KL Monteith… - Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
From fine‐scale foraging to broad‐scale migration, animal movement is shaped by the
distribution of resources. There is mounting evidence, however, that learning and memory …

Migrant birds and mammals live faster than residents

A Soriano-Redondo, JS Gutiérrez, D Hodgson… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Billions of vertebrates migrate to and from their breeding grounds annually, exhibiting
astonishing feats of endurance. Many such movements are energetically costly yet there is …

Seasonality in ecology: Progress and prospects in theory

ER White, A Hastings - Ecological Complexity, 2020 - Elsevier
Seasonality is an important feature of essentially all natural systems but the consequences
of seasonality have been vastly underappreciated. Early work emphasized the role of …

Learning and animal movement

MA Lewis, WF Fagan, M Auger-Méthé… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Integrating diverse concepts from animal behavior, movement ecology, and machine
learning, we develop an overview of the ecology of learning and animal movement …