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Animal migration is the long-distance relocation of individual animals. It usually involves a substantial number of individuals and is often in response to a seasonal or life-history cue.
The energetic needs of females increase markedly around the birth of offspring. Large herbivore females thus track food resources, the availability of which varies in time and space. A multispecies dataset of GPS locations revealed that female movement to reach food is hampered by the adaptive antipredator behaviour of their offspring.
Climate change is inducing widespread shifts in the phenology of terrestrial organisms. This global analysis reveals a growing asymmetry between plant and animal responses, with more pronounced phenological shifts in plants.
The energetic needs of females increase markedly around the birth of offspring. Large herbivore females thus track food resources, the availability of which varies in time and space. A multispecies dataset of GPS locations revealed that female movement to reach food is hampered by the adaptive antipredator behaviour of their offspring.
As climate change redirects migration patterns of marine species towards the extremes of their geographic range, sharks find themselves stunned by rising cold upwelling currents.
Amidst the Arctic sea-ice decline and the consequent increasing under-ice light transmittance, Arctic zooplankton face challenging times. The collection of a unique dataset in the central Arctic Ocean unravels the patterns of their vertical migration, signalling potential disruptions to the Arctic ecosystem.
Examining the evolutionary history of ungulate migration shows that this behaviour has evolved multiple times in response to grassland expansion and increased seasonality of resources.