Energetic and biomechanical constraints on animal migration distance

Ecology Letters - Tập 15 Số 2 - Trang 104-110 - 2012
Andrew M. Hein1, Chen Hou2,3,4, James F. Gillooly1
1Dept of Biology, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville FL 32611, USA
2Department of Biological Science, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri 65409, USA
3Department of Biology University of Florida Gainesville FL 32611 USA
4Department of Systems and Computational Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA

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Ecology Letters(2011)AbstractAnimal migration is one of the great wonders of nature, but the factors that determine how far migrants travel remain poorly understood. We present a new quantitative model of animal migration and use it to describe the maximum migration distance of walking, swimming and flying migrants. The model combines biomechanics and metabolic scaling to show how maximum migration distance is constrained by body size for each mode of travel. The model also indicates that the number of body lengths travelled by walking and swimming migrants should be approximately invariant of body size. Data from over 200 species of migratory birds, mammals, fish, and invertebrates support the central conclusion of the model – that body size drives variation in maximum migration distance among species through its effects on metabolism and the cost of locomotion. The model provides a new tool to enhance general understanding of the ecology and evolution of migration.

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Ecology Letters

Tập 15 Số 2

104-110

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