Co-migration fidelity at a stopover site increases over time in African-European migratory landbirds.

ABSTRACT: Migratory species are changing their timing of departure from wintering areas and arrival to breeding sites (i.e. migration phenology) in response to climate change to exploit maximum food availability at higher latitudes and improve their fitness. Despite the impact of changing migration phenology at population and community level, the extent to which individual and species-specific response affects associations among co-migrating species has been seldom explored. By applying temporal co-occurrence network models on 15 years of standardized bird ringing data at a spring stopover site, we show that African-European migratory landbirds tend to migrate in well-defined groups of species with high temporal overlap. Such 'co-migration fidelity' significantly increased over the years and was hig

SUBMITTER: Bellisario B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10465194 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature