Eco-evolutionary drivers of avian migratory connectivity.
Convention on Migratory Species
EURING
European-African migrants
avian migration
bird conservation
migration ecology
migratory connectivity
mobile species
ringing encounters
Journal
Ecology letters
ISSN: 1461-0248
Titre abrégé: Ecol Lett
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101121949
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jul 2023
Jul 2023
Historique:
revised:
23
03
2023
received:
05
07
2022
accepted:
24
03
2023
medline:
26
6
2023
pubmed:
1
5
2023
entrez:
1
5
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Migratory connectivity, reflecting the extent by which migrants tend to maintain their reciprocal positions in seasonal ranges, can assist in the conservation and management of mobile species, yet relevant drivers remain unclear. Taking advantage of an exceptionally large (~150,000 individuals, 83 species) and more-than-a-century-long dataset of bird ringing encounters, we investigated eco-evolutionary drivers of migratory connectivity in both short- and long-distance Afro-Palearctic migratory birds. Connectivity was strongly associated with geographical proxies of migration costs and was weakly influenced by biological traits and phylogeny, suggesting the evolutionary lability of migratory behaviour. The large intraspecific variability in avian migration strategies, through which most species geographically split into distinct migratory populations, explained why most of them were significantly connected. By unravelling key determinants of migratory connectivity, our study improves knowledge about the resilience of avian migrants to ecological perturbations, providing a critical tool to inform transboundary conservation and management strategies at the population level.
Types de publication
Letter
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1095-1107Subventions
Organisme : Convention on Migratory Species
Organisme : EURING
Organisme : Ministry of the Ecological Transition of the Italian Government
Informations de copyright
© 2023 The Authors. Ecology Letters published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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