In most long‐distance migratory birds, juveniles migrate without their parents and so are
likely to lack detailed knowledge of where to go. This suggests the potential for stochasticity …

Density dependence plays an important role in population regulation in the wild. It involves a
decrease in population growth rate when the population size increases. Fifty years ago …

Billions of organisms, from bacteria to humans, migrate each year and research on their
migration biology is expanding rapidly through ever more sophisticated remote sensing …

Over the past 40 years, the study of animal populations has shifted from a relatively simple
science that assumed the most crucial regulating mechanisms were the intrinsic properties …

Individual quality is often signaled by phenotypic flags, such as bright plumage patches in
birds. Extended phenotype signals can similarly show quality, but in these cases the signals …

Each year, billions of flying and swimming migrants negotiate the challenging displacement
imposed by travelling through a flowing medium. However, little is known about how the …

The annual cycle of most animals is structured into discrete stages, such as breeding,
migration and dispersal. While there is growing appreciation of the importance of different …

Assessing mortality factors and survival rates is a cornerstone for the management of
threatened and harvestable species. Modern tracking technologies allow unprecedented …

The deployment of electronic devices on animals is rapidly expanding and producing
leapfrog advances in ecological knowledge. Even though their effects on the ecology and …

Natal dispersal, the movement between the birth and the first breeding site, has been rarely
studied in long-lived territorial birds with a long-lasting pre-breeding stage. Here we …