Wave-like Patterns of Plant Phenology Determine Ungulate Movement Tactics

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.032" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.032</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Wave-like Patterns of Plant Phenology Determine Ungulate Movement Tactics

Original language description

Animals exhibit a diversity of movement tactics [1]. Tracking resources that change across space and time is predicted to be a fundamental driver of animal movement [2]. For example, some migratory ungulates (i.e., hooved mammals) closely track the progression of highly nutritious plant green-up, a phenomenon called ,,green-wave surfing,, [3-5]. Yet general principles describing how the dynamic nature of resources determine movement tactics are lacking [6]. We tested an emerging theory that predicts surfing and the existence of migratory behavior will be favored in environments where green-up is fleeting and moves sequentially across large landscapes (i.e., wave-like green-up) [7]. Landscapes exhibiting wave-like patterns of greenup facilitated surfing and explained the existence of migratory behavior across 61 populations of four ungulate species on two continents (n = 1,696 individuals). At the species level, foraging benefits were equivalent between tactics, suggesting that each movement tactic is fine-tuned to local patterns of plant phenology. For decades, ecologists have sought to understand how animals move to select habitat, commonly defining habitat as a set of static patches [8, 9]. Our findings indicate that animal movement tactics emerge as a function of the flux of resources across space and time, underscoring the need to redefine habitat to include its dynamic attributes. As global habitats continue to be modified by anthropogenic disturbance and climate change [10], our synthesis provides a generalizable framework to understand how animal movement will be influenced by altered patterns of resource phenology.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10608 - Biochemistry and molecular biology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Current Biology

ISSN

0960-9822

e-ISSN

1879-0445

Volume of the periodical

30

Issue of the periodical within the volume

17

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

3444-3449

UT code for WoS article

000569894000007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85087935553