Gary L. Fralick

TL;DR: The results indicate that migratory routes are more than a link between seasonal ranges, and they provide an important, but often overlooked, foraging habitat, and the spatiotemporal configuration of forage resources that propagate along migratory route shape animal movement and presumably, energy gains during migration.

TL;DR: Movement data from four populations of migratory mule deer indicated that spatial memory had an extraordinary influence on migration, affecting movement 2-28 times more strongly than tracking spring green-up or autumn snow depth.

TL;DR: The multiplicative effects of indirect habitat loss, as mediated by behavior, impaired use of the foodscape by reducing the amount of available forage for mule deer, a consequence of which may be winter ranges that support fewer animals than they did before development.

TL;DR: Drought shortened the duration of spring green- up by approximately twofold and resulted in less sequential green-up along migratory routes, highlighting the synchronization of phenological events as an important mechanism by which climate change can negatively affect migratory species by reducing the temporal availability of key food resources.

TL;DR: In this paper, the use of capital and income resources may facilitate flexibility in reproductive phenology of migratory mule deer in western Wyoming, USA, over a five-year period (2015-2019).