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The development of bird migration theory

Thomas Alerstam, +1 more
- 01 Dec 1998 - 
- Vol. 29, Iss: 4, pp 343-369
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This article is published in Journal of Avian Biology.The article was published on 1998-12-01. It has received 407 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Bird migration.

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Long-distance migration: evolution and determinants

Thomas Alerstam, +2 more
- 01 Nov 2003 - 
TL;DR: From this expos it is clear that research on migration warrants a multitude of techniques and approaches for a complete as possible understanding of a very complex evolutionary syndrome.
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Stochastic simulations reveal few green wave surfing populations among spring migrating herbivorous waterfowl.

Xin Wang, +15 more
- 16 May 2019 - 
TL;DR: It is suggested that ecological barriers and particularly human disturbance likely constrain the capacity of herbivorous waterfowl to track the green wave in some regions, highlighting key challenges in conserving migratory birds.
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The ecology and evolution of partial migration

Ben B. Chapman, +3 more
- 01 Dec 2011 - 
TL;DR: What determines whether an individual follows a migratory or resident strategy is discussed in light of new theory and empirical data which supports the idea that environmentally responsive genetic thresholds are important across a range of species, from birds to fish, in proximately shaping migratory tendency.
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Rapid population decline in red knots: fitness consequences of decreased refuelling rates and late arrival in Delaware Bay

Allan J. Baker, +10 more
- 22 Apr 2004 - 
TL;DR: Demographic modelling predicts imminent endangerment and an increased risk of extinction of the subspecies without urgent risk–averse management of the red knot population wintering in Tierra del Fuego, seriously threatening the viability of this subspecies.
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Extreme endurance flights by landbirds crossing the Pacific Ocean : Ecological corridor rather than barrier?

Robert E. Gill, +9 more
- 07 Feb 2009 - 
TL;DR: It is proposed that this transoceanic route of bar-tailed godwits may function as an ecological corridor rather than a barrier, providing a wind-assisted passage relatively free of pathogens and predators.
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Evolution and the Theory of Games

John Maynard Smith
TL;DR: A modification of the theory of games, a branch of mathematics first formulated by Von Neumann and Morgenstern in 1944 for the analysis of human conflicts, was proposed in this paper.

The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme

Stephen Jay Gould, +3 more
TL;DR: The adaptationist programme is faulted for its failure to distinguish current utility from reasons for origin, and Darwin’s own pluralistic approach to identifying the agents of evolutionary change is supported.
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The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme

Stephen Jay Gould, +1 more
- 21 Sep 1979 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors criticise the adaptationist program for its inability to distinguish current utility from reasons for origin (male tyrannosaurs may have used their diminutive front legs to titillate female partners, but this will not explain why they got so small).
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Optimal foraging, the marginal value theorem.

Eric L. Charnov
- 01 Apr 1976 - 
TL;DR: This paper will develop a model for the use of a “patchy habitat” by an optimal predator and depresses the availability of food to itself so that the amount of food gained for time spent in a patch of type i is hi(T), where the function rises to an asymptote.
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Parent-Offspring Conflict

Robert Trivers
- 01 Feb 1974 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the parent-offspring conflict in sexually reproducing species is viewed from the standpoint of the offspring as well as the parent, and it is shown that conflict is an expected feature of such relations.