Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Simulation-based reconstruction of global bird migration over the past 50,000 years

  • Marius Somveille,
  • Martin Wikelski,
  • Robert M. Beyer,
  • Ana S. L. Rodrigues,
  • Andrea Manica,
  • Walter Jetz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14589-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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It is unclear whether bird migration patterns are restricted to interglacial periods or are maintained during glacial maxima. Somveille et al. apply a global migration simulation model to climate reconstruction to show that the prevalence of this phenomenon has likely been largely maintained up to 50,000 years ago.