Surfing on a green wave - how plant growth drives spring migration in the Barnacle Goose Branta leucopsis

By V. D. Graaf, Julia Stahl, A. Klimkowska, J. Bakker, Rudolf H. Drent. 2006

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The onset of spring and timing of migration in two arctic nesting goose populations: the pink-footed goose Anser bachyrhynchus and the barnacle goose Branta leucopsis (2008, unknown): “The optimal timing of migration is thought to coincide with the flush of vegetation growth in spring (Drent et al. 1979, Owen 1980), and this has been proposed as the main force influencing goose migration along several flyways (Prop et al. 1998, van der Graaf et al. 2006).”
Migratory connectivity in Arctic geese: spring stopovers are the weak links in meeting targets for breeding (2007, background): “Van der Graaf et al. (2006) have examined the match between vegetation and geese by meticulous study of forage growth at two staging sites and the final destination on the breeding station of a specific population of the Russian stock of the Barnacle Goose.”
Travelling to breed (2006, background): “…pattern of grazing by geese at spring stopovers may have positive effects on their own food supply on the short-term (Fox et al. 1998; Van der Graaf et al. 2005, 2006) underlines the vulnerability of this ‘fine-tuning’ to external disturbance or other agents of change such as climate trends…”
Towards a new understanding of migration timing: slower spring than autumn migration in geese reflects different decision rules for stopover use and departure (2016, background): “They were shown to follow the green wave of spring growth and spend long times at stopovers for refuelling (van der Graaf et al. 2006, van Wijk et al. 2012).”
Phenological matching across hemispheres in a long‐distance migratory bird (2013, background): “…that avian herbivores such as waterfowl follow plant emergence and growth along their spring migration route (Drent et al., 1978; Owen, 1980), and this primary productivity is considered the main force driving migration rates for avian herbivores (Van der Graaf et al., 2006; van Wijk et al., 2012).”
Green‐wave surfing increases fat gain in a migratory ungulate (2018, background): “…studies have examined the influence of the green wave on the progression of spring migrations at much finer scales, showing that some birds (van der Graaf et al. 2006) and North American ungulates (Sawyer and Kauffman 2011, Merkle et al. 2016, Aikens et al. 2017) closely surf the green wave…”