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Fig. 5 | Movement Ecology

Fig. 5

From: Collective behavior as a driver of critical transitions in migratory populations

Fig. 5

Collapse of feeding migration (Model 3). Numeric solutions for \(\bar {N}\) given the dynamics described in Eqs. (12) & (13). For low levels of additional mortality (x-axis) the system is bistable, exhibiting either a large population migrating at speed v K (blue curve) or a small, stationary population which relies on the background resource level, K o , with an occasional pulse when the favorable patch passes by (red curve). A limit point defines the critical level of h above which the migratory population cannot exist

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