Animal migration in the Anthropocene: threats and mitigation options

SJ Cooke, ML Piczak, NJ Singh, S Åkesson… - Biological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Animal migration has fascinated scientists and the public alike for centuries, yet migratory
animals are facing diverse threats that could lead to their demise. The Anthropocene is …

Interconnecting global threats: climate change, biodiversity loss, and infectious diseases

A Pfenning-Butterworth, LB Buckley… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2024 - thelancet.com
The concurrent pressures of rising global temperatures, rates and incidence of species
decline, and emergence of infectious diseases represent an unprecedented planetary crisis …

Divergent migration routes reveal contrasting energy-minimization strategies to deal with differing resource predictability

CR Shuert, NE Hussey, M Marcoux… - Movement Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Background Seasonal long-distance movements are a common feature in many taxa
allowing animals to deal with seasonal habitats and life-history demands. Many species use …

Foraging habits of Northwest Atlantic hooded seals over the past 30 years: Future habitat suitability under global warming

J Vacquié‐Garcia, J Spitz, M Hammill… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The Arctic is a global warming 'hot‐spot'that is experiencing rapid increases in air and ocean
temperatures and concomitant decreases in sea ice cover. These environmental changes …

Do beluga whales truly migrate? Testing a key trait of the classical migration syndrome

L Storrie, LL Loseto, EL Sutherland, SA MacPhee… - Movement Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Background Migration enables organisms to access resources in separate regions that have
predictable but asynchronous spatiotemporal variability in habitat quality. The classical …

Year-round monitoring of Arctic species of sculpin to identify residency and seasonality of movement behavior

NT Hermann, LJ Hammer, NE Hussey… - Canadian Journal of …, 2023 - cdnsciencepub.com
Environments change across space and time, often requiring organisms to exhibit
behavioral responses. In the Arctic, migratory consumers are motivated by spring resources …

Accurate species classification of Arctic toothed whale echolocation clicks using one-third octave ratios

MJ Zahn, M Ladegaard, M Simon… - The Journal of the …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Passive acoustic monitoring has been an effective tool to study cetaceans in remote regions
of the Arctic. Here, we advance methods to acoustically identify the only two Arctic toothed …

A review of statistical models used to characterize species-habitat associations with animal movement data

K Florko, RR Togunov, R Gryba, E Sidrow… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Understanding species-habitat associations is fundamental to ecological sciences and for
species conservation. Consequently, various statistical approaches have been designed to …

Narwhal (Monodon monoceros) echolocation click rates to support cue counting passive acoustic density estimation

CS Marques, DA Marques, SB Blackwell… - The Journal of the …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Estimating animal abundance is fundamental for effective management and conservation. It
is increasingly done by combining passive acoustics with knowledge about rates at which …

Connectivity of marine predators over the Patagonian Shelf during the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak

J Riaz, RA Orben, A Gamble, M Tierney, P Catry… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Animal movement and population connectivity are key areas of uncertainty in efforts to
understand and predict the spread of infectious disease. The emergence of highly …