Animal migration: An overview of one of nature's great spectacles

AM Fudickar, AE Jahn… - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The twenty-first century has witnessed an explosion in research on animal migration, in
large part due to a technological revolution in tracking and remote-sensing technologies …

Individual repeatability of avian migration phenology: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

KA Franklin, MAC Nicoll, SJ Butler… - Journal of Animal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Changes in phenology and distribution are being widely reported for many
migratory species in response to shifting environmental conditions. Understanding these …

Demographic consequences of phenological asynchrony for North American songbirds

C Youngflesh, GA Montgomery… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Changes in phenology in response to ongoing climate change have been observed in
numerous taxa around the world. Differing rates of phenological shifts across trophic levels …

Beyond refueling: Investigating the diversity of functions of migratory stopover events

JA Linscott, NR Senner - The Condor, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Stopovers comprise a significant proportion of the time that many birds spend migrating, and
researchers have long relied on these events to define and classify broader migratory …

Six decades of North American bird banding records reveal plasticity in migration phenology

KG Horton, SR Morris, BM Van Doren… - Journal of Animal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The timing of avian migration has evolved to exploit critical seasonal resources, yet plasticity
within phenological responses may allow adjustments to interannual resource phenology …

Does early spring arrival lead to early nesting in a migratory shorebird? Insights from remote tracking

J Nightingale, JA Gill, TG Gunnarsson, AD Rocha… - Ibis, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Advancing breeding phenology is a commonly observed response to climate warming
among bird species, potentially in response to shifts in the phenology of key resources …

Annual schedule adjustment by a long-distance migratory bird

C Carneiro, TG Gunnarsson… - The American …, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
Matching the timing of annual cycle events with the required resources can have crucial
consequences for individual fitness. But as the annual cycle is composed of sequential …

Low fitness at low latitudes: Wintering in the tropics increases migratory delays and mortality rates in an Arctic breeding shorebird

J Reneerkens, TSL Versluijs, T Piersma… - Journal of Animal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Evolutionary theories of seasonal migration generally assume that the costs of longer
migrations are balanced by benefits at the non‐breeding destinations. We tested, and …

Geolocators lead to better measures of timing and renesting in black‐tailed godwits and reveal the bias of traditional observational methods

MA Verhoeven, AHJ Loonstra… - Journal of Avian …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Long‐term population studies can identify changes in population dynamics over time.
However, to realize meaningful conclusions, these studies rely on accurate measurements …

Full lifetime perspectives on the costs and benefits of lay‐date variation in tree swallows

DW Winkler, KK Hallinger, TM Pegan, CC Taff… - Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Animals must balance various costs and benefits when deciding when to breed. The costs
and benefits of breeding at different times have received much attention, but most studies …