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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Memory and resource tracking drive blue whale migrations

B Abrahms, EL Hazen, EO Aikens… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
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 …

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 …

Drivers of site fidelity in ungulates

TA Morrison, JA Merkle, JGC Hopcraft… - Journal of animal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
While the tendency to return to previously visited locations—termed 'site fidelity'—is common
in animals, the cause of this behaviour is not well understood. One hypothesis is that site …

Spatial memory shapes migration and its benefits: evidence from a large herbivore

JA Merkle, H Sawyer, KL Monteith… - Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
From fine‐scale foraging to broad‐scale migration, animal movement is shaped by the
distribution of resources. There is mounting evidence, however, that learning and memory …

Learning shapes the development of migratory behavior

EO Aikens, E Nourani, W Fiedler… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
How animals refine migratory behavior over their lifetime (ie, the ontogeny of migration) is an
enduring question with important implications for predicting the adaptive capacity of …

Understanding the importance of dynamic landscape connectivity

KA Zeller, R Lewison, RJ Fletcher Jr, MG Tulbure… - Land, 2020 - mdpi.com
Landscape connectivity is increasingly promoted as a conservation tool to combat the
negative effects of habitat loss, fragmentation, and climate change. Given its importance as a …