Long-distance migration: evolution and determinants

By T. Alerstam, A. Hedenström, Susanne Åkesson. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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There and back again: migration in freshwater fishes (2014, background): “The study of migration continues to be a major focus of contemporary biological research (e.g., Alerstam et al. 2003; Chapman et al. 2011a), and we now know that migration is a ubiquitous feature in the life cycle of an extremely diverse range of animals, from microscopic crustaceans to large,…”
A framework for the study of genetic variation in migratory behaviour (2006, positive): “Various optimality approaches focus on different questions, ranging from evolution of migration to adaptations for the migration process (Alerstam and Lindström 1990; Alerstam et al. 2003; Houston 1998; Weber et al. 1998;Weber 1999).”
Life in the ice lane: the winter ecology of stream salmonids (2007, background): “The decision to make long distance movements is probably at least partly genetically determined, although the timing, duration and distance of migration are also influenced by learning (Linnér et al., 1990; Fausch and Young, 1995; Alerstam et al., 2003).”
MIGRATION STOPOVERS AND THE CONSERVATION OF ARCTIC-BREEDING CALIDRIDINE SANDPIPERS (2006, background): “In fact, Alerstam et al. (2003) refer to the “great evolutionary fl exibility” associated with long-distance migration in general, recognizing the continuing evolution of migration pa erns in some species even during the past few thousand years.”
Research, part of a Special Feature on Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Adaptation to Global Environmental Change: North and South Perspectives Traditional ecological knowledge among transhumant pastoralists in Mediterranean Spain (2013, background): “Key Words: adaptive strategy; drove road; environmental change; mobility; pastoralism; resilience”
Spatial scales of marine conservation management for breeding seabirds (2018, background): “While protecting juvenile, immature and adult life-stages outside the breeding season is equally important for the conservation of long-lived species [41,42], the movement patterns of seabirds when they are not breeding may be more affected by their latitudinal distributions than by taxonomic differ”
Competition, predation, and migration: Individual choice patterns of Serengeti migrants captured by hierarchical models (2014, background): “Animal migrations are typically determined by seasonal access to high-quality food patches, which generally occur across gradients of soil fertility, rainfall, elevation, or latitude (Fryxell and Sinclair 1988, Alerstam et al. 2003).”
Disease-limited distributions? Contrasts in the prevalence of avian malaria in shorebird species using marine and freshwater habitats (2005, background): “Host behaviour, such as seasonal movement, also influences parasite prevalence (Moore 2002, Alerstam et al. 2003), with migration distance inversely related to parasite prevalence (in butterflies; Altizer et al. 2000) or intensity of infections (in reindeer; Folstad et al. 1991).”
Ontogeny of long distance migration (2014, background): “…and consequently the drivers of these movements and the cues/behaviors used to optimize travel between distant sites have received a lot of attention in recent years (e.g., Alexander 1998, Alerstam et al. 2003, Chapman et al. 2010, Liedvogel et al. 2011, Mueller et al. 2013, Putman et al. 2013).”
Evolutionary predictors of mammalian home range size: body mass, diet and the environment (2014, background): “This would especially be the case with the inclusion of the various whale migrations, which cover a large area, for example the length of a migration (i.e. one direction, single track) can be greater than 5000 km, without accounting for the ‘width’ of the home range (Alerstam et al., 2003).”
Light‐level geolocators reveal migratory connectivity in European populations of pied flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca (2016, positive): “In many cases, migration between such distant habitats has evolved as a strategy to maximize fitness in seasonal environments: migrants profit from peaks in food abundance at their temperate breeding grounds but avoid harsh conditions in winter (Alerstam et al. 2003).”
The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI): unforeseen successes in animal ecology (2011, background): “Movement analyses of different taxa and species, such as mammals, birds, insects and amphibians, has largely been developed independently (Fryxell & Sinclair 1988, Alerstam et al. 2003, Grayson & Wilbur 2009).”
Climate change and bird phenology: a long‐term study in the Iberian Peninsula (2006, background): “Migratory birds move between two regions to take advantage of the optimum environmental conditions occurring at each location at different times of the year (Alerstam et al., 2003).”
Potential impacts of climatic change on the breeding and non‐breeding ranges and migration distance of European Sylvia warblers (2009, background): “…depends upon complex behaviour, physiology and endogenous programmes, suitably located stopover habitats between breeding and non-breeding areas, and synchronization of migration times with seasons in different geographical areas (Berthold & Helbig, 1992; Berthold, 2001; Alerstam et al., 2003).”