Climate change and phenology

DW Inouye - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is a defining element of the current ecological landscape, with
consequences ranging from global to local environments. One of the first indices of the …

Emerging perspectives on resource tracking and animal movement ecology

B Abrahms, EO Aikens, JB Armstrong… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
Resource tracking, where animals increase energy gain by moving to track phenological
variation in resources across space, is emerging as a fundamental attribute of animal …

High mountain areas

R Hock, G Rasul, C Adler, B Cáceres, S Gruber… - IPCC special report on …, 2019 - iris.unito.it
The cryosphere (including, snow, glaciers, permafrost, lake and river ice) is an integral
element of high mountain regions, which are home to roughly 10% of the global population …

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 …

Environmental predictability as a cause and consequence of animal movement

L Riotte-Lambert, J Matthiopoulos - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2020 - cell.com
The impacts of environmental predictability on the ecology and evolution of animal
movement have been the subject of vigorous speculation for several decades. Recently, the …

Memory and resource tracking drive blue whale migrations

B Abrahms, EL Hazen, EO Aikens, MS Savoca… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - pnas.org
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 …

Decoupling of bird migration from the changing phenology of spring green-up

EP Robertson, FA La Sorte, JD Mays, PJ Taillie… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
The green-up of vegetation in spring brings a pulse of food resources that many animals
track during migration. However, green-up phenology is changing with climate change …

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 …

The greenscape shapes surfing of resource waves in a large migratory herbivore

EO Aikens, MJ Kauffman, JA Merkle… - Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Green Wave Hypothesis posits that herbivore migration manifests in response
to waves of spring green‐up (ie green‐wave surfing). Nonetheless, empirical support for the …

Observing the unwatchable: Integrating automated sensing, naturalistic observations and animal social network analysis in the age of big data

JE Smith, N Pinter‐Wollman - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the 4.5 decades since Altmann (1974) published her seminal paper on the methods for
the observational study of behaviour, automated detection and analysis of social interaction …