Cues, strategies, and outcomes: how migrating vertebrates track environmental change

DW Winkler, C Jørgensen, C Both, AI Houston… - Movement Ecology, 2014 - Springer
Migratory vertebrates adjust their movements in response to environmental change.
Throughout their migrations, they gather information, integrate environmental and internal …

The cognitive ecology of animal movement: evidence from birds and mammals

T Kashetsky, T Avgar, R Dukas - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cognition, defined as the processes concerned with the acquisition, retention and use of
information, underlies animals' abilities to navigate their local surroundings, embark on long …

Memory, not just perception, plays an important role in terrestrial mammalian migration

C Bracis, T Mueller - Proceedings of the Royal Society B …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
One of the key questions regarding the underlying mechanisms of mammalian land
migrations is how animals select where to go. Most studies assume perception of resources …

Autumn bird migration phenology: A potpourri of wind, precipitation and temperature effects

B Haest, O Hüppop, M van de Pol… - Global Change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change has caused a clear and univocal trend towards advancement in spring
phenology. Changes in autumn phenology are much more diverse, with advancement …

Predictability of species distributions deteriorates under novel environmental conditions in the California Current System

BA Muhling, S Brodie, JA Smith, D Tommasi… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Spatial distributions of marine fauna are determined by complex interactions between
environmental conditions and animal behaviors. As climate change leads to warmer, more …

Timing is everything: Drivers of interannual variability in blue whale migration

AR Szesciorka, LT Ballance, A Širović, A Rice… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Blue whales need to time their migration from their breeding grounds to their feeding
grounds to avoid missing peak prey abundances, but the cues they use for this are …

Cues and the optimal timing of activities under environmental changes

JM McNamara, Z Barta, M Klaassen, S Bauer - Ecology letters, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 1183–1190 Abstract Organisms time activities by using
environmental cues to forecast the future availability of important resources. Presently, there …

Continental-scale patterns in diel flight timing of high-altitude migratory insects

B Haest, F Liechti, WL Hawkes… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Many insects depend on high-altitude, migratory movements during part of their life cycle.
The daily timing of these migratory movements is not random, eg many insect species show …

Forecasting spring from afar? Timing of migration and predictability of phenology along different migration routes of an avian herbivore

A Kölzsch, S Bauer, R De Boer, L Griffin… - Journal of Animal …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Herbivorous birds are hypothesized to migrate in spring along a seasonal gradient of plant
profitability towards their breeding grounds (green wave hypothesis). For Arctic breeding …

Timing is crucial for consequences of migratory connectivity

S Bauer, S Lisovski, S Hahn - Oikos, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Migratory connectivity can have important consequences for individuals, populations and
communities. We argue that most consequences not only depend on which sites are used …