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Nocturnal avian migration drives high daily turnover but limited change in abundance on the ground
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dc.contributor.author | Nussbaumer, Raphaël | |
dc.contributor.author | Van Doren, Benjamin M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Hochachka, Wesley M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Farnsworth, Andrew | |
dc.contributor.author | La Sorte, Frank A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Johnston, Alison | |
dc.contributor.author | Dokter, Adriaan M. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-08-12T14:30:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-08-12T14:30:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-07-26 | |
dc.identifier | 306150081 | |
dc.identifier | f8845243-7064-4aa6-b039-95922dd571d6 | |
dc.identifier | 85199547208 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Nussbaumer , R , Van Doren , B M , Hochachka , W M , Farnsworth , A , La Sorte , F A , Johnston , A & Dokter , A M 2024 , ' Nocturnal avian migration drives high daily turnover but limited change in abundance on the ground ' , Ecography , vol. Early View , e07107 . https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.07107 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0906-7590 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0001-8221-013X/work/165297154 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/30375 | |
dc.description | Funding: This research received support from the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant no. 191138 and 21787, to RN), through the GloBAM project as part of the 2017/2018 Belmont Forum and BiodivERsA joint call for research proposals (NSF no. 1927743 to AF and AMD), the Macrodemography project (NSF no. 2017817, to AMD) and the Lyda Hill Philanthropies (to AF). | en |
dc.description.abstract | Every night during spring and autumn, the mass movement of migratory birds redistributes bird abundances found on the ground during the day. However, the connection between the magnitude of nocturnal migration and the resulting change in diurnal abundance remains poorly quantified. If departures and landings at the same location are balanced throughout the night, we expect high bird turnover but little change in diurnal abundance (stream-like migration). Alternatively, migrants may move simultaneously in spatial pulses, with well-separated areas of departure and landing that cause significant changes in the abundance of birds on the ground during the day (wave-like migration). Here, we apply a flow model to data from weather surveillance radars (WSR) to quantify the daily fluxes of nocturnally migrating birds landing and departing from the ground, characterizing the movement and stopover of birds in a comprehensive synoptic scale framework. We corroborate our results with independent observations of the diurnal abundances of birds on the ground from eBird. Furthermore, we estimate the abundance turnover, defined as the proportion of birds replaced overnight. We find that seasonal bird migration chiefly resembles a stream where bird populations on the ground are continuously replaced by new individuals. Large areas show similar magnitudes of take-off and landing, coupled with relatively small distances flown by birds each night, resulting in little change in bird densities on the ground. We further show that WSR-inferred landing and take-off fluxes predict changes in eBird-derived abundance turnover rate and turnover in species composition. We find that the daily turnover rate of birds is 13% on average but can reach up to 50% on peak migration nights. Our results highlight that WSR networks can provide real-time information on rapidly changing bird distributions on the ground. The flow model applied to WSR data can be a valuable tool for real-time conservation and public engagement focused on migratory birds' daytime stopovers. | |
dc.format.extent | 12 | |
dc.format.extent | 2473376 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Ecography | en |
dc.subject | Bird migration | en |
dc.subject | eBird | en |
dc.subject | Flow model | en |
dc.subject | Stopover | en |
dc.subject | Turnover | en |
dc.subject | Weather surveillance radar | en |
dc.subject | HA Statistics | en |
dc.subject | Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | en |
dc.subject | DAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | HA | en |
dc.title | Nocturnal avian migration drives high daily turnover but limited change in abundance on the ground | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Mathematics and Statistics | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Statistics | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Research into Ecological & Environmental Modelling | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/ecog.07107 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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