Quantifying drivers of population dynamics for a migratory bird throughout the annual cycle.

ABSTRACT: Worldwide, migratory species are undergoing rapid declines but understanding the factors driving these declines is hindered by missing information about migratory connectivity and the lack of data to quantify environmental processes across the annual cycle. Here, we combined range-wide information about migratory connectivity with global remote-sensing data to quantify the relative importance of breeding and non-breeding environmental processes to persistent long-term population declines of a migratory songbird, the wood thrush (Hylocichla mustelina). Consistent with theoretical predictions about population limitation of migratory birds, our results suggest that habitat loss and climate have contributed to the observed declines in wood thrush breeding abundance, yet the relative importance

SUBMITTER: Rushing CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4795038 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature