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 …

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 …

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 …

Animal migration: An overview of one of nature's great spectacles

AM Fudickar, AE Jahn… - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The twenty-first century has witnessed an explosion in research on animal migration, in
large part due to a technological revolution in tracking and remote-sensing technologies …

Species-Habitat Associations: Spatial data, predictive models, and ecological insights

J Matthiopoulos, JR Fieberg, G Aarts - 2023 - conservancy.umn.edu
Ecologists develop species-habitat association (SHA) models to understand where species
occur, why they are there and where else they might be. This knowledge can be used to …

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

EP Robertson, FA La Sorte, JD Mays… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
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 …

From theory to practice in pattern‐oriented modelling: identifying and using empirical patterns in predictive models

CA Gallagher, M Chudzinska, A Larsen‐Gray… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
To robustly predict the effects of disturbance and ecosystem changes on species, it is
necessary to produce structurally realistic models with high predictive power and flexibility …

Evolutionary causes and consequences of ungulate migration

JO Abraham, NS Upham, A Damian-Serrano… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Ungulate migrations are crucial for maintaining abundant populations and functional
ecosystems. However, little is known about how or why migratory behaviour evolved in …

Learning and animal movement

MA Lewis, WF Fagan, M Auger-Méthé… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Integrating diverse concepts from animal behavior, movement ecology, and machine
learning, we develop an overview of the ecology of learning and animal movement …

The plasticity of ungulate migration in a changing world

W Xu, K Barker, A Shawler, A Van Scoyoc, JA Smith… - Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Migratory ungulates are thought to be declining globally because their dependence on large
landscapes renders them highly vulnerable to environmental change. Yet recent studies …