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 …

[HTML][HTML] Threats of global warming to the world's freshwater fishes

V Barbarossa, J Bosmans, N Wanders, H King… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Climate change poses a significant threat to global biodiversity, but freshwater fishes have
been largely ignored in climate change assessments. Here, we assess threats of future flow …

A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models

D Zurell, J Franklin, C König, PJ Bouchet… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Species distribution models (SDMs) constitute the most common class of models across
ecology, evolution and conservation. The advent of ready‐to‐use software packages and …

Connectivity between countries established by landbirds and raptors migrating along the African–Eurasian flyway

JL Guilherme, VR Jones, I Catry, M Beal… - Conservation …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The conservation of long‐distance migratory birds requires coordination between the
multiple countries connected by the movements of these species. The recent expansion of …

Evolutionary genomics can improve prediction of species' responses to climate change

AM Waldvogel, B Feldmeyer, G Rolshausen… - Evolution …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Global climate change (GCC) increasingly threatens biodiversity through the loss of species,
and the transformation of entire ecosystems. Many species are challenged by the pace of …

Birds advancing lay dates with warming springs face greater risk of chick mortality

JR Shipley, CW Twining, CC Taff… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
In response to a warming planet with earlier springs, migratory animals are adjusting the
timing of essential life stages. Although these adjustments may be essential for keeping …

Climate-driven flyway changes and memory-based long-distance migration

Z Gu, S Pan, Z Lin, L Hu, X Dai, J Chang, Y Xue, H Su… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Millions of migratory birds occupy seasonally favourable breeding grounds in the Arctic, but
we know little about the formation, maintenance and future of the migration routes of Arctic …

Disentangling the relative roles of climate and land cover change in driving the long‐term population trends of European migratory birds

C Howard, PA Stephens… - Diversity and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Global declines in the populations of migratory species have been attributed largely to
climate change and anthropogenic habitat change. However, the relative contribution of …

[HTML][HTML] A new westward migration route in an Asian passerine bird

P Dufour, C de Franceschi, P Doniol-Valcroze, F Jiguet… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
The evolution of migration routes in birds remains poorly understood as changes in
migration strategies are rarely observed on contemporary timescales. 1–3 The Richard's …

Increasing climatic decoupling of bird abundances and distributions

DS Viana, JM Chase - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2022 - nature.com
Species abundances and distributions are changing in response to changing climate and
other anthropogenic drivers but how this translates into how well species can match their …