New frontiers in bird migration research

A Flack, EO Aikens, A Kölzsch, E Nourani, KRS Snell… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Bird migrations are impressive behavioral phenomena, representing complex
spatiotemporal strategies to balance costs of living while maximizing fitness. The field of bird …

The Pacific as the world's greatest theater of bird migration: Extreme flights spark questions about physiological capabilities, behavior, and the evolution of migratory …

T Piersma, RE Gill Jr, DR Ruthrauff, CG Guglielmo… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Pacific Basin, by virtue of its vastness and its complex aeroscape, provides
unique opportunities to address questions about the behavioral and physiological …

Impacts of habitat loss on migratory shorebird populations and communities at stopover sites in the Yellow Sea

X Wang, Y Chen, DS Melville, CY Choi, K Tan… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Migratory birds generally use one or more stopover sites for rest and/or refuelling during
long-distance migration where a large abundance of diverse species can concentrate into …

Predicting resilience of migratory birds to environmental change

S Lisovski, BJ Hoye, JR Conklin… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
The pace and scale of environmental change represent major challenges to many
organisms. Animals that move long distances, such as migratory birds, are especially …

Contaminant-by-environment interactive effects on animal behavior in the context of global change: Evidence from avian behavioral ecotoxicology

AS Grunst, ML Grunst, J Fort - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
The potential for chemical contaminant exposure to interact with other stressors to affect
animal behavioral responses to environmental variability is of mounting concern in the …

Annual schedule adjustment by a long-distance migratory bird

C Carneiro, TG Gunnarsson… - The American …, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
Matching the timing of annual cycle events with the required resources can have crucial
consequences for individual fitness. But as the annual cycle is composed of sequential …

[HTML][HTML] Individual variation, personality, and the ability of animals to cope with climate change

JF Cockrem - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The Sixth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change describes
negative effects of climate change on animals occurring on a larger scale than previously …

Time constraints may pace the ontogeny of movement behaviour

AG Hertel, R Efrat, K Reznikov… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
During early development, juvenile animals need to acquire a diverse behavioural
repertoire to interact with their environment. The ontogeny of animal behaviour, is paced by …

Arriving late and lean at a stopover site is selected against in a declining migratory bird population

HB Peng, Z Ma, E Rakhimberdiev… - Journal of Animal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Loss and/or deterioration of refuelling habitats have caused population declines in many
migratory bird species but whether this results from unequal mortality among individuals …

[HTML][HTML] A partial migrant relies upon a range-wide cue set but uses population-specific weighting for migratory timing

N Linek, P Brzęk, P Gienapp, MT O'Mara, I Pokrovsky… - Movement Ecology, 2021 - Springer
Background Many birds species range over vast geographic regions and migrate seasonally
between their breeding and overwintering sites. Deciding when to depart for migration is …