SynthesisNature ecology & evolution2022
The influence of social cues on timing of animal migrations.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The study of social animal migrations: a synthesis of the past and guidelines for future research.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Pooled it
- The importance of migratory drop-off for island colonization in birds.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Pooled it
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- Birds may represent a useful animal model for studying human mental disorders.Acta neuropsychiatrica · 2025Review
- Culture and conservation in baleen whales.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- North American avian species that migrate in flocks show greater long-term non-breeding range shift rates.Movement ecology · 2025Article
- Anthropogenic impacts at the interface of animal spatial and social behaviour.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Migratory strategies across an ecological barrier: is the answer blowing in the wind?Movement ecology · 2024Article
- Evidence for seasonal migration by a cryptic top predator of the deep sea.Movement ecology · 2024Article
- Spatial and seasonal foraging patterns drive diet differences among north Pacific resident killer whale populations.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Long-distance communication can enable collective migration in a dynamic seascape.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Revisiting Perdeck's massive avian migration experiments debunks alternative social interpretations.Biology letters · 2024Article
- The price of being late: short- and long-term consequences of a delayed migration timing.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Migrating mule deer compensate en route for phenological mismatches.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Integrating space, time, and culture in animal conservation practice.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Animal migration plays a central role in many ecological and evolutionary processes, yet migratory populations worldwide are increasingly threatened. Adjusting migration timing to match ecosystem phenology is key to survival in dynamic and changing ecosystems, especially in an era of human-induced rapid environmental change. Social cues are increasingly recognized as major components of migratory behaviour, yet a comprehensive understanding of how social cues influence the timing of animal migrations remains elusive. Here, we introduce a framework for assessing the role that social cues, ranging from explicit (for example, active cueing) to implicit (for example, competition), play in animals' temporal migration decisions across a range of scales. By applying this theoretical lens to a systematic review of published literature, we show that a broad range of social cues frequently mediate migration timing at a range of temporal scales and across highly diverse migratory taxa. We further highlight that while rarely documented, several social cue mechanisms (for example, social learning and density dependency) play important adaptive roles in matching migration timing with ecosystem dynamics. Thus, social cues play a fundamental role in migration timing, with potentially widespread ecological consequences and implications for the conservation of migratory species. Furthermore, our analysis establishes a theoretical basis on which to evaluate future findings on the role of both conspecific and interspecific social cues in this intersection of behavioural ecology and global change biology.
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