How do energy stores and changes in these affect departure decisions by migratory birds? A critical view on stopover ecology studies and some future perspectives

H Schmaljohann, C Eikenaar - Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2017 - Springer
In birds, accumulating energy is far slower than spending energy during flight. During
migration, birds spend, therefore, most of the time at stopover refueling energy used during …

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 …

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 …

Resource tracking within and across continents in long-distance bird migrants

K Thorup, AP Tøttrup, M Willemoes, RHG Klaassen… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Migratory birds track seasonal resources across and between continents. We propose a
general strategy of tracking the broad seasonal abundance of resources throughout the …

Understanding drivers of antibiotic resistance genes in High Arctic soil ecosystems

CM McCann, B Christgen, JA Roberts, JQ Su… - Environment …, 2019 - Elsevier
Soils in tropical and temperate locations are known to be a sink for the genetic potential of
anthropogenic-driven acquired antibiotic resistance (AR). In contrast, accumulation of …

Migrating bison engineer the green wave

C Geremia, JA Merkle, DR Eacker, RL Wallen… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - pnas.org
Newly emerging plants provide the best forage for herbivores. To exploit this fleeting
resource, migrating herbivores align their movements to surf the wave of spring green-up …

Context-aware movement analysis in ecology: a systematic review

V Brum-Bastos, M Łoś, JA Long, T Nelson… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Research on movement has increased over the past two decades, particularly in movement
ecology, which studies animal movement. Taking context into consideration when analysing …

Effects of species traits and environmental predictors on performance and transferability of ecological niche models

A Regos, L Gagne, D Alcaraz-Segura, JP Honrado… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The ability of ecological niche models (ENMs) to produce robust predictions for different time
frames (ie temporal transferability) may be hindered by a lack of ecologically relevant …

Unconventional life history in a migratory shorebird: desegregating reproduction and migration

CR Slezak, EJ Blomberg, AM Roth… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Conventional life-history theory predicts that energy-demanding events such as
reproduction and migration must be temporally segregated to avoid resource limitation …

Phenological synchronization of seasonal bird migration with vegetation greenness across dietary guilds

FA La Sorte, CH Graham - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The seasonal movement of animals has been linked to seasonal variation in ecological
productivity, and it has been hypothesized that primary consumers synchronize migration …