Nature Communications (May 2019)
Stochastic simulations reveal few green wave surfing populations among spring migrating herbivorous waterfowl
- Xin Wang,
- Lei Cao,
- Anthony D. Fox,
- Richard Fuller,
- Larry Griffin,
- Carl Mitchell,
- Yunlin Zhao,
- Oun-Kyong Moon,
- David Cabot,
- Zhenggang Xu,
- Nyambayar Batbayar,
- Andrea Kölzsch,
- Henk P. van der Jeugd,
- Jesper Madsen,
- Liding Chen,
- Ran Nathan
Affiliations
- Xin Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Lei Cao
- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Anthony D. Fox
- Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University
- Richard Fuller
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland
- Larry Griffin
- The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT)
- Carl Mitchell
- The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT)
- Yunlin Zhao
- College of Life Science and Technology, Central South University of Forestry and Technology
- Oun-Kyong Moon
- Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency
- David Cabot
- School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Science, University College Cork
- Zhenggang Xu
- College of Life Science and Technology, Central South University of Forestry and Technology
- Nyambayar Batbayar
- Wildlife Science and Conservation Center
- Andrea Kölzsch
- Department of Migration and Immuno-Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
- Henk P. van der Jeugd
- Vogeltrekstation—Dutch Centre for Avian Migration and Demography (NIOO-KNAW)
- Jesper Madsen
- Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University
- Liding Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Ran Nathan
- Movement Ecology Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09971-8
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 12
Abstract
The green wave hypothesis is often considered a key driver of spring migration in avian herbivores. Here the authors employ a multispecies comparison and find that migration did not track the green wave better than simulated stochastic migrations.
