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 …

Migratory plasticity is not ubiquitous among large herbivores

H Sawyer, JA Merkle, AD Middleton… - Journal of Animal …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The migratory movements of wild animals can promote abundance and support ecosystem
functioning. For large herbivores, mounting evidence suggests that migratory behaviour is …

Stopover ecology of a migratory ungulate

H Sawyer, MJ Kauffman - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Birds that migrate long distances use stopover sites to optimize fuel loads and complete
migration as quickly as possible. Stopover use has been predicted to facilitate a time …

Memory, not just perception, plays an important role in terrestrial mammalian migration

C Bracis, T Mueller - Proceedings of the Royal Society B …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
One of the key questions regarding the underlying mechanisms of mammalian land
migrations is how animals select where to go. Most studies assume perception of resources …

The extra mile: Ungulate migration distance alters the use of seasonal range and exposure to anthropogenic risk

H Sawyer, AD Middleton, MM Hayes, MJ Kauffman… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Partial migration occurs across a variety of taxa and has important ecological and
evolutionary consequences. Among ungulates, studies of partially migratory populations …

Migration or residency? The evolution of movement behavior and information usage in seasonal environments

AK Shaw, ID Couzin - The American Naturalist, 2013 - journals.uchicago.edu
Migration, the seasonal movement of individuals among different locations, is a behavior
found throughout the animal kingdom. Although migration is widely studied at taxonomically …

Explaining movement decisions of forest rodents in fragmented landscapes

CE Rizkalla, RK Swihart - Biological Conservation, 2007 - Elsevier
Functional connectivity is a measure of the interaction of landscape structure and a species'
dispersal ability to determine the degree to which a landscape facilitates movement among …

Spatial memory and animal movement

WF Fagan, MA Lewis, M Auger‐Méthé, T Avgar… - Ecology …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Memory is critical to understanding animal movement but has proven challenging to study.
Advances in animal tracking technology, theoretical movement models and cognitive …

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 …

Tracking snowmelt to jump the green wave: phenological drivers of migration in a northern ungulate

MP Laforge, M Bonar, E Vander Wal - Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In northern climates, spring is a time of rapid environmental change: for migrating terrestrial
animals, melting snow facilitates foraging and travel, and newly emergent vegetation …