ArticleeLife2017
Migration confers winter survival benefits in a partially migratory songbird.
Article in eLife, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Fitness consequences of different migratory strategies in partially migratory populations: A multi-taxa meta-analysis.The Journal of animal ecology · 2020Pooled it
- Urbanization and migratory status shape nonbreeding space use behaviors in a North American songbird.Movement ecology · 2026Article
- Early-life stasis in partial seasonal migration is underpinned by among-cohort variation in migratory plasticity and selective disappearance.The Journal of animal ecology · 2026Article
- To Migrate or not to Migrate? Exploring the Genomic Basis of Partial Migratory Behavior in Bats.Genome biology and evolution · 2025Article
- Migration shapes senescence in a long-lived bird.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Induced breeding failure alters movements, migratory phenology, and opportunities for pathogen spread in an urban gull population.Movement ecology · 2025Article
- Safe Periods and Safe Activities: Two Phenological Responses to Mortality.Ecology and evolution · 2025Review
- Seasonal vertical migration of large polar copepods reinterpreted as a dispersal mechanism throughout the water column.Communications earth & environment · 2025Article
- Migratory lifestyle carries no added overall energy cost in a partial migratory songbird.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
- Should I stay or should I fly? Migration phenology, individual-based migration decision and seasonal changes in foraging behaviour of Common Woodpigeons.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2022Article
- Density-dependent winter survival of immatures in an irruptive raptor with pulsed breeding.Oecologia · 2022Article
- A partial migrant relies upon a range-wide cue set but uses population-specific weighting for migratory timing.Movement ecology · 2021Article
- Modelling migration in birds: competition's role in maintaining individual variation.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- A songbird adjusts its heart rate and body temperature in response to season and fluctuating daily conditions.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Episodes of opposing survival and reproductive selection cause strong fluctuating selection on seasonal migration versus residence.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- The impact of tree crops and temperature on the timing of frugivorous bird migration.Oecologia · 2020Article
- Among-individual and within-individual variation in seasonal migration covaries with subsequent reproductive success in a partially migratory bird.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Migratory connectivity in the context of differential migration.Biology letters · 2018Article
- Population and evolutionary dynamics in spatially structured seasonally varying environments.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2018Review
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Abstract
To evolve and to be maintained, seasonal migration, despite its risks, has to yield fitness benefits compared with year-round residency. Empirical data supporting this prediction have remained elusive in the bird literature. To test fitness related benefits of migration, we studied a partial migratory population of European blackbirds (
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