ReviewOecologia2020
Ontogenetic niche shifts as a driver of seasonal migration.
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- Seasonal Elevational Migration Shapes Temperate Bird Community in the Gyirong Valley, Central Himalayas.Biology · 2026Article
- A theoretical framework for scaling ecological niches from individuals to species.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Movement traits important to conservation and fisheries management: an example with red snapper.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Spatio-Temporal Variations of Volatile Metabolites as an Eco-Physiological Response of a Native Species in the Tropical Forest.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Do beluga whales truly migrate? Testing a key trait of the classical migration syndrome.Movement ecology · 2023Article
- Contrasting intra-individual variation in size-based trophic and habitat shifts for two coastal Arctic fish species.Oecologia · 2023Article
- Year-round activity levels reveal diurnal foraging constraints in the annual cycle of migratory and non-migratory barnacle geese.Oecologia · 2023Article
- Identification of Candidate Genes for Min Pig Villi Hair Traits by Genome-Wide Association of Copy Number Variation.Veterinary sciences · 2023Article
- Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Genes Contributed to Min Pig Villi Hair Follicle in Different Seasons.Veterinary sciences · 2022Article
- Competition among small individuals hinders adaptive radiation despite ecological opportunity.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Postnatal growth rate varies with latitude in range-expanding geese: The role of plasticity and day length.The Journal of animal ecology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Ontogenetic niche shifts have helped to understand population dynamics. Here we show that ontogenetic niche shifts also offer an explanation, complementary to traditional concepts, as to why certain species show seasonal migration. We describe how demographic processes (survival, reproduction and migration) and associated ecological requirements of species may change with ontogenetic stage (juvenile, adult) and across the migratory range (breeding, non-breeding). We apply this concept to widely different species (dark-bellied brent geese (Branta b. bernicla), humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) and migratory Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) to check the generality of this hypothesis. Consistent with the idea that ontogenetic niche shifts are an important driver of seasonal migration, we find that growth and survival of juvenile life stages profit most from ecological conditions that are specific to breeding areas. We suggest that matrix population modelling techniques are promising to detect the importance of the ontogenetic niche shifts in maintaining migratory strategies. As a proof of concept, we applied a first analysis to resident, partial migratory and fully migratory populations of barnacle geese (Branta leucopsis). We argue that recognition of the costs and benefits of migration, and how these vary with life stages, is important to understand and conserve migration under global environmental change.
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