When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Animal migration - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_migration

    Animal migration is the relatively long-distance movement of individual animals, usually on a seasonal basis. It is the most common form of migration in ecology. It is found in all major animal groups, including birds , mammals , fish , reptiles , amphibians, insects , and crustaceans .

  3. Migration (ecology) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_(ecology)

    Animal migration is the relatively long-distance movement of individual animals, usually on a seasonal basis. It is the most common form of migration in ecology. [ 5 ] It is found in all major animal groups, including birds , [ 6 ] mammals , [ 7 ] fish , [ 8 ] [ 9 ] reptiles , [ 10 ] amphibians, insects , [ 11 ] and crustaceans .

  4. Great American Interchange - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Interchange

    This difference in fortunes was manifested in several ways. Northwardly migrating animals often were not able to compete for resources as well as the North American species already occupying the same ecological niches; those that did become established were not able to diversify much, and in some cases did not survive for long. [ 88 ]

  5. European immigration to the Americas - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_immigration_to...

    The supply of Portuguese and Spanish people willing to emigrate was so high that the Spanish and Portuguese governments even had to restrict emigration to the Americas [3] (very early Spain had restricted emigration to the Spanish West Indies [5] and Portugal had to pass three laws prohibiting the migration of people from the Portuguese ...

  6. Spanish diaspora - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_diaspora

    Over the nineteenth century, the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo was the subject of a mass migration of Spaniards, most of whom came from the Canary Islands. [29] Due to this migration, it decreased the amount of non-whites in the colony with the black population dropping to 12%, the mulatto population to 8%, and the quadroons to 31%.

  7. Here's the Important Difference Between Hispanic, Latino and ...

    www.aol.com/lifestyle/heres-important-difference...

    Learn the difference between a Hispanic, Latino, and Spanish person. Hispanic describes a Spanish-speaking person while Latino is for people from Latin America.

  8. Immigration - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration

    Some migration is for personal reasons, based on a relationship (e.g. to be with family or a partner), such as in family reunification or transnational marriage (especially in the instance of a gender imbalance). Recent research has found gender, age, and cross-cultural differences in the ownership of the idea to immigrate. [46]

  9. Emigration - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emigration

    The rate of emigration has continued to grow, reaching 280 million in 2017. [15] In Armenia, for example, the migration is calculated by counting people arriving or leaving the country via airplane, train, railway or other means of transportation. Here, the emigration index is high: 1.5% of population leaves the country annually. [16]