Scientists report changes in vegetation determine how animals migrate

Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - 13:31 in Biology & Nature

The predictability and scale of seasonal changes in a habitat help determine the distance migratory species move and whether the animals always travel together to the same place or independently to different locations, according to a paper published online in February in Global Ecology and Biogeography by the National Zoo's Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute researchers and partners.

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