Persistent species relationships characterize migrating bird communities across stopover sites and seasons.

ABSTRACT: Global migrations of diverse animal species often converge along the same routes, bringing together seasonal assemblages of animals that may compete, prey on each other, and share information or pathogens. These interspecific interactions, when energetic demands are high and the time to complete journeys is short, may influence survival, migratory success, stopover ecology, and migratory routes. Numerous accounts suggest that interspecific co-migrations are globally distributed in aerial, aquatic, and terrestrial systems, although the study of migration to date has rarely investigated species interactions among migrating animals. Here, we test the hypothesis that migrating animals are communities engaged in networks of ecological interactions. We leverage over half a million records of 50

SUBMITTER: DeSimone JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11348330 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature