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General information
Animal migration @ NGS
List of migratory animals with Pictures & facts @ ActiveWild
14 of the greatest animal migrations @ Treehugger
Migratory Connectivity Project @ Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center
Atlas of Migratory Connectivity
Migratory Insects of North America
MoveBank for animal tracking data
· "...a free, online database of animal tracking data hosted by the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior.
We help animal tracking researchers to manage, share, protect, analyze and archive their data."
Migratory species listings
Global
Global Registry of Migratory Species (GROMS)
Convention on Migratory Species (CMS)
· Global Initiative on Ungulate Migration (GIUM) @ CMS
· While the term “ungulates” generally means “hooved mammal," it is not easy to pin down
a widely accepted formal or informal definition, and it seems to be a designation that has
been dropped from modern taxonomic systems. It includes, but is not limited to, artiodactyla
and perrisodactyla (see below).
Regional
Migratory insects of North America @ Texas Entomology
Domestic
Migratory Species List @ Australia EPBCA
List of migratory birds @ US Code of Federal Regulations
Highly migratory fish species @ USNOAA
Periodicals
Portfolio: Animal migration
· Research updates & news
Knowledge Project: Animal migration
Climate change
Institutions
ICARUS: International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space
Migratory Connectivity Project
· “Given the rapid advancement of technology and migratory connectivity data, the Migratory
Connectivity Project was created to facilitate development of new technologies and serve as
a portal for gathering and disseminating information. Our ultimate goal is to advance the
conservation and understanding of animals throughout their full life cycle by promoting the
science of migratory connectivity.”
· This Australia-based organization “builds the participation capacity of wildlife scientists,
wildlife policy experts, NGOs and CSOs around the world to secure international wildlife
conservation.”
Select reading on migratory species & ecosystem services & nature‘s contributions to people
Bagstad, Kenneth J., Darius J. Semmens, James E. Diffendorfer, Brady J. Mattsson, James Dubovsky, Wayne E. Thogmartin, Ruscena Wiederholt, John Loomis, Joanna A. Bieri, Christine Sample, Joshua Goldstein, and Laura López-Hoffman. 2018. Ecosystem service flows from a migratory species: Spatial subsidies of the northern pintail. Ambio 48, no. 1: 61-73.
Chester, Charles C., Aaron M. Lien, Juanita Sundberg, Jay E. Diffendorfer, Columba Gonzalez‐Duarte, Brady J. Mattsson, Rodrigo A. Medellín, Darius J. Semmens, Wayne E. Thogmartin, Jonathan J. Derbridge, and Laura López‐Hoffman. 2022. Using ecosystem services to identify inequitable outcomes in migratory species conservation. Conservation Letters e12920.
Kulmala, S, P Haapasaari, TP Karjalainen, S Kuikka, T Pakarinen, K Parkkila, A Romakkaniemi, and PJ Vuorinen. 2012. Ecosystem services provided by Baltic salmon: A regional perspective to the socio-economic benefits associated with a keystone migratory species. In Synthesis in the context of the economics of ecosystems and biodiversity (TEEB), eds. M. Kettunen, P. Vihervaara, S. Kinnunen, D. D’Amato, T. Badura, M. Argimon, and P. Ten Brink, 266-276.
López-Hoffman, L., D. Semmens, and J. Diffendorfer. 2013. How do migratory species add ecosystem services value to wilderness? International Journal of Wilderness 19, no. 1: 14-19.
López-Hoffman, Laura, Charles C. Chester, and Robert Merideth. 2017. Conserving transborder migratory bats, preserving nature’s benefits to humans: The lesson from North America’s bird conservation treaties. BioScience 67, no. 4: 321-322.
López-Hoffman, Laura, Charles C Chester, Darius J Semmens, Wayne E Thogmartin, M Sofia Rodríguez-McGoffin, Robert Merideth, and Jay E Diffendorfer. 2017. Ecosystem services from transborder migratory species: Implications for conservation governance. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 42, 509-539.
López-Hoffman, Laura, Jay Diffendorfer, Ruscena Wiederholt, Kenneth J. Bagstad, Wayne E. Thogmartin, Gary McCracken, Rodrigo L. Medellin, Amy Russell, and Darius J. Semmens. 2017. Operationalizing the telecoupling framework for migratory species using the spatial subsidies approach to examine ecosystem services provided by Mexican free-tailed bats. Ecology and Society 22, no. 4: 23.
Semmens, Darius J., James E. Diffendorfer, Laura López-Hoffman, and Carl D. Shapiro. 2011. Accounting for the ecosystem services of migratory species: Quantifying migration support and spatial subsidies. Ecological Economics 70, no. 12: 2236-2242.
Semmens, Darius J., Jay E. Diffendorfer, Kenneth J. Bagstad, Ruscena Wiederholt, Karen Oberhauser, Leslie Ries, Brice X. Semmens, Joshua Goldstein, John Loomis, Wayne E. Thogmartin, Brady J. Mattsson, and Laura López-Hoffman. 2018. Quantifying ecosystem service flows at multiple scales across the range of a long-distance migratory species. Ecosystem Services 31, 255-264.
Whelan, Christopher J., Daniel G. Wenny, and Robert J. Marquis. 2008. Ecosystem Services Provided by Birds. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1134, no. 1: 25-60.
Yam, RS, KP Huang, HL Hsieh, HJ Lin, and SC Huang. 2015. An ecosystem-service approach to evaluate the role of non-native species in urbanized wetlands. Int J Environ Res Public Health 12, no. 4: 3926-3943.
Migratory species & animal migration
Contents of this page:
~ Global
~ Regional
~ Domestic
· Climate change
· Select readings on migratory species, ecosystem services & nature‘s contributions to people (NCPs)
Subpages:
· Convention on Migratory Species (CMS)
· Regional geography of migratory species conservation
· Timeline of international agreements for migratory species conservation