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Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volume 52, 2021

Animal Migration: An Overview of One of Nature's Great Spectacles

Abstract

The twenty-first century has witnessed an explosion in research on animal migration, in large part due to a technological revolution in tracking and remote-sensing technologies, along with advances in genomics and integrative biology. We now have access to unprecedented amounts of data on when, where, and how animals migrate across various continents and oceans. Among the important advancements, recent studies have uncovered a surprising level of variation in migratory trajectories at the species and population levels with implications for both speciation and the conservation of migratory populations. At the organismal level, studies linking molecular and physiological mechanisms to traits that support migration have revealed a remarkable amount of seasonal flexibility in many migratory animals. Advancements in the theory for why animals migrate have resulted in promising new directions for empirical studies. We provide an overview of the current state of knowledge and promising future avenues of study.

Keyword(s): behavioral syndrome, evolution, movement ecology, threshold trait, tracking
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Animal Migration: An Overview of One of Nature's Great Spectacles
Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 52, 479 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-012021-031035
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