The conservation of Afro‐Palaearctic migrants: what we are learning and what we need to know?

JA Vickery, JW Mallord, WM Adams, AE Beresford… - Ibis, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The global long‐term decline of migrant birds represents an important and challenging issue
for conservation scientists and practitioners. This review draws together recent research …

Challenges and opportunities for data integration to improve estimation of migratory connectivity

JA Hostetler, EB Cohen, CM Bossu… - Methods in Ecology …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding migratory connectivity, or the linkage of populations between seasons, is
critical for effective conservation and management of migratory wildlife. A growing number of …

Integrating data types to estimate spatial patterns of avian migration across the Western Hemisphere

TD Meehan, SP Saunders, WV DeLuca… - Ecological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
For many avian species, spatial migration patterns remain largely undescribed, especially
across hemispheric extents. Recent advancements in tracking technologies and high …

High spatiotemporal overlap in the non‐breeding season despite geographically dispersed breeding locations in the eastern whip‐poor‐will (Antrostomus vociferus)

AA Skinner, MP Ward, I Souza‐Cole… - Diversity and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim A full annual cycle approach to conservation and understanding of regional population
trends requires an understanding of migratory connectivity. We present tracking data on the …

Striving for population-level conservation: integrating physiology across the biological hierarchy

EM Ames, MR Gade, CL Nieman… - Conservation …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The field of conservation physiology strives to achieve conservation goals by revealing
physiological mechanisms that drive population declines in the face of human-induced rapid …

Sensitivity of migratory connectivity estimates to spatial sampling design

SH Vickers, AMA Franco, JJ Gilroy - Movement Ecology, 2021 - Springer
Background The use of statistical methods to quantify the strength of migratory connectivity
is commonplace. However, little attention has been given to their sensitivity to spatial …

Population assignment reveals low migratory connectivity in a weakly structured songbird

MG DeSaix, LP Bulluck, AJ Eckert… - Molecular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding migratory connectivity is essential for determining the drivers behind
population dynamics and for implementing effective conservation strategies for migratory …

Defining catchment origins of a geographical bottleneck: Implications of population mixing and phenological overlap for the conservation of Neotropical migratory …

L Cardenas-Ortiz, NJ Bayly, KJ Kardynal… - The Condor, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Migratory bottlenecks concentrate individuals and populations of Nearctic–Neotropical
migrants from across vast breeding areas. The extent to which such concentrations occur …

Range-wide post-and pre-breeding migratory networks of a declining neotropical–nearctic migratory bird, the blackpoll warbler

J Duali, WV DeLuca, SA Mackenzie, JA Tremblay… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Identifying the drivers of population declines in migratory species requires an understanding
of how individuals are distributed between periods of the annual cycle. We built post-(fall) …

Habitat loss on the breeding grounds is a major contributor to population declines in a long-distance migratory songbird

MT Hallworth, E Bayne, E McKinnon… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Many migratory species are declining and for most, the proximate causes of their declines
remain unknown. For many long-distance Neotropical migratory songbirds, it is assumed …