ReviewJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2017
How do energy stores and changes in these affect departure decisions by migratory birds? A critical view on stopover ecology studies and some future perspectives.
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- Drivers of migrant passerine composition at stopover islands in the western Mediterranean.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The role of ketogenesis in the migratory fattening of the northern wheatearBiology letters · 2021Article
- Temperature change is an important departure cue in nocturnal migrants: controlled experiments with wild-caught birds in a proof-of-concept study.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Are movements of daytime and nighttime passerine migrants as different as day and night?Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- A quasi-experimental approach using telemetry to assess migration-strategy-specific differences in the decision-making processes at stopover.BMC ecology · 2020Article
- Not just fuel: energy stores are correlated with immune function and oxidative damage in a long-distance migrant.Current zoology · 2020Article
- The physiology of movement.Movement ecology · 2020Review
- Stopover departure decisions in songbirds: do long-distance migrants depart earlier and more independently of weather conditions than medium-distance migrants?Movement ecology · 2020Article
- Energy Stores, Oxidative Balance, and Sleep in Migratory Garden Warblers (Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2020Article
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Abstract
In birds, accumulating energy is far slower than spending energy during flight. During migration, birds spend, therefore, most of the time at stopover refueling energy used during the previous flight. This elucidates why current energy stores and actual rate of accumulating energy are likely crucial factors influencing bird's decision when to resume migration in addition to other intrinsic (sex, age) and extrinsic (predation, weather) factors modulating the decision within the innate migration program. After first summarizing how energy stores and stopover durations are generally determined, we critically review that high-energy stores and low rates of accumulating energy were significantly related to high departure probabilities in several bird groups. There are, however, also many studies showing no effect at all. Recent radio-tracking studies highlighted that migrants leave a site either to resume migration or to search for a better stopover location, so-called "landscape movements". Erroneously treating such movements as departures increases the likelihood of type II errors which might mistakenly suggest no effect of either trait on departure. Furthermore, we propose that energy loss during the previous migratory flight in relation to bird's current energy stores and migration strategy significantly affects its urge to refuel and hence its departure decision.
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