Sébastien Roques

Greater flamingo in Camargue, France. CREDIT: Claude Gross

Migration comes with tradeoffs. Flamingoes that migrate don’t live as long as their resident cousins—their lifespan is 6.7 years shorter on average—but nonmigrating flamingoes see accelerated mortality and reproductive declines later in life. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Migration shapes senescence in a long-lived bird | doi.org/10.1073/pnas... | PNAS | #ornithology 🪶

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Migration shapes senescence in a long-lived bird | PNAS Each year, billions of animals migrate across the globe on diverse spatial and temporal scales. Migration behavior thus plays a fundamental role in...

Flamingos Reveal a Secret About Ageing. While most living beings do grow old, migrating flamingos do so more slowly than residents. Thanks to long-term monitoring program led by @tourduvalat.bsky.social we have uncovered this surprising phenomenon.Look at our publication www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Migration shapes senescence in a long-lived bird | PNAS Each year, billions of animals migrate across the globe on diverse spatial and temporal scales. Migration behavior thus plays a fundamental role in...

🦩🦩🦩 First paper from my last postdoc at @tourduvalat.bsky.social, co-first authored with Hugo Cayuela, is now published in @pnas.org. Thanks to a wonderful dataset on the Greater Flamingo in southern France, we investigated the relationship between migratory behaviour and ageing. 🦩🦩🦩

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The first two parts of the trilogy can be found here :
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Final paper of our stopover trilogy now online in @oikosjournal.bsky.social : « Interspecies synchrony in departure decisions from stopover sites: evidence using a multi-species capture–recapture model »

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Mechanisms underlying the loss of migratory behaviour in a long‐lived bird White stork populations in Iberia are undergoing a profound change in their migratory patterns, becoming mostly resident. By combining census data, GPS-tracking and genomic analyses, Andrade et al. l...

A large proportion of the white storks in southern Europe no longer migrate. Our new paper examined the mechanims behind the loss in migratory behavious with several methods including tracking data besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology #whitestorks #animalmigration

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The importance of sampling design for unbiased estimation of survival using joint live-recapture and live resight models Dzul, Maria C.1  ; Yackulic, Charles B.1 ; Kendall, William L.2 1 US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, USA 2 US Geological Survey,…

Now published in Peer Community Journal, #ecology section #Euring2023 conference: The importance of sampling design for unbiased estimation of survival using joint live-recapture and live resight models

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#ornithology
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