The influence of social cues on timing of animal migrations

WK Oestreich, KM Aiu, LB Crowder… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Animal migration plays a central role in many ecological and evolutionary processes, yet
migratory populations worldwide are increasingly threatened. Adjusting migration timing to …

Acoustic signature reveals blue whales tune life‐history transitions to oceanographic conditions

WK Oestreich, B Abrahms, MF McKenna… - Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Matching the timing of life‐history transitions with ecosystem phenology is critical for the
survival of many species, especially those undertaking long‐distance migrations. As a result …

Social exploitation of extensive, ephemeral, environmentally controlled prey patches by supergroups of rorqual whales

DE Cade, JA Fahlbusch, WK Oestreich, J Ryan… - Animal Behaviour, 2021 - Elsevier
Large groups of animals aggregate around resource hotspots, with group size often
influenced by the heterogeneity of the environment. In most cases, the foraging success of …

Long-distance communication can enable collective migration in a dynamic seascape

S Dodson, WK Oestreich, MS Savoca, EL Hazen… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Social information is predicted to enhance the quality of animals' migratory decisions in
dynamic ecosystems, but the relative benefits of social information in the long-range …

Explaining and predicting animal migration under global change

C Howard, THE Mason, SR Baillie… - Diversity and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Many migratory species are declining due to global environmental change. Yet, their
complex annual cycles make unravelling the impacts of potential drivers such as climate and …

Combining potential and realized distribution modeling of telemetry data for a bycatch risk assessment

BH Frantz, M Sepúlveda, M García‐Reyes… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Establishing marine species distributions is essential for guiding management and can be
estimated by identifying potential favorable habitat at a population level and incorporating …

An individual‐based model trained on multiple data sources estimates population connectivity and facilitates aggregation of harvest management units

M Gonnerman, SA Shea, K Sullivan… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Management boundaries are often delimited by political and social factors, whereas animal
movements are affected by ecological and geophysical constraints. Thus, understanding …

Collective queuing motion of self-propelled particles with leadership and experience

D Kong, K Xue, P Wang - Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2024 - Elsevier
The coordinated and ordered collective behavior arising from dispersed and local self-
organizing interactions among individuals is widely observed in many biological …

Avoidance, confusion or solitude? Modelling how noise pollution affects whale migration

ST Johnston, KJ Painter - Movement Ecology, 2024 - Springer
Many baleen whales are renowned for their acoustic communication. Under pristine
conditions, this communication can plausibly occur across hundreds of kilometres. Frequent …

Quantifying thermal cues that initiate mass emigrations in juvenile white sharks

E Spurgeon, JM Anderson, Y Liu, VL Barajas… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
While the function of migration varies among species, environmental temperature is known
to be one of the most important abiotic variables that drive animal migration; however …