Population trends in Vermivora warblers are linked to strong migratory connectivity.

ABSTRACT: Migratory species can experience limiting factors at different locations and during different periods of their annual cycle. In migratory birds, these factors may even occur in different hemispheres. Therefore, identifying the distribution of populations throughout their annual cycle (i.e., migratory connectivity) can reveal the complex ecological and evolutionary relationships that link species and ecosystems across the globe and illuminate where and how limiting factors influence population trends. A growing body of literature continues to identify species that exhibit weak connectivity wherein individuals from distinct breeding areas co-occur during the nonbreeding period. A detailed account of a broadly distributed species exhibiting strong migratory connectivity in which nonbreeding i

SUBMITTER: Kramer GR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5889647 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature