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Migration or residency? the evolution of movement behavior and information usage in seasonal environments

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Authors

Shaw, Allison

Couzin, Iain D

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Abstract

Migration, the seasonal movement of individuals among different locations, is a behavior found throughout the animal kingdom. Although migration is widely studied at taxonomically restricted levels, cross-taxonomic syntheses of migration are less common.

Keywords

Keywords: animal; evolutionarily stable strategy; fitness; heterogeneity; life history trait; migratory population; movement; patchiness; seasonal variation; seasonality; taxonomy; animal; article; biological model; environment; evolution; genetic selection; popula Individual-based model; Information usage; Migration; Movement; Resource heterogeneity; Seasonality

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/74201

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

The American Naturalist

Type

Journal article

DOI

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2037-12-31

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