Migration

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• Human migration
  Human migration
  
  Human migration denotes any movement by humans from one district to another, sometimes over long distances or in large groups.Migration is one of the four evolutionary forces ...
  
• Bird migration
  Bird migration
  
  Bird migration refers to the regular seasonal journeys undertaken by many species of birds. Bird movements include those made in response to changes in food availability, habitat or weather....
  
• Reverse migration
  Reverse migration
  
  Reverse migration is a phenomenon in bird migration. Although some large birds such as swans learn migration routes from their parents, in most small species, such as passerines, the route is genetically programmed, and young birds can innately navigate to their wintering area....
  , a phenomenon in bird migration
• Diel vertical migration
  Diel vertical migration
  
  Diel vertical migration refers to a pattern of movement that some organisms living in the ocean's photic zone undertake each day. The organisms that exhibit this pattern of behaviour range in size from microscopic plankton through to much larger nekton such as fish....
  , a daily migration undertaken by some ocean organisms
• Fish migration
  Fish migration
  
  Many types of fish migration on a regular basis, on time scales ranging from daily to annual, and over distances ranging from a few meters to thousands of kilometers....
  
• Insect migration
• Plant migration, see Seed dispersal
  Seed dispersal
  
  Seed dispersal is the movement or transport of seeds away from the parent plant. Plants have limited mobility and consequently rely upon a variety of dispersal vectors to transport their propagules, including both abiotic and biotic vectors....
  

• Cell migration
  Cell migration
  
  Cell migration is a central process in the development and maintenance of multicellular organisms. Tissue formation during embryogenesis, wound healing and immune systems all require the orchestrated movement of cells in a particular direction to a specific location....
  , in biology
• Geophysical migration
  Geophysical migration
  
  Geophysical migration of seismic data is the correction of the flat-geological-layer assumption by a numerical, grid-based spatial convolution of the seismic data to account for dipping events ....
  , in geophysics
• Microscopic motion of material caused by an external force, distinct from spontaneous diffusion, including electromigration
  Electromigration
  
  Electromigration is the transport of material caused by the gradual movement of the ions in a Conductor due to the momentum transfer between conducting electrons and diffusing metal atoms....
  , electrophoresis
  Electrophoresis
  
  Electrophoresis is the best-known electrokinetic phenomena. It was discovered by Reuss in 1807. He observed that clay particles dispersed in water migrate under influence of an applied electric field....
  , sedimentation
  Sedimentation
  
  Sedimentation describes the motion of molecules in solutions or particle s in suspension in response to an external force such as gravitation, centrifugal force or electromagnetism....
  , in physical chemistry and materials
• Planetary migration
  Planetary migration
  
  Planetary migration occurs when a planet or other stellar satellite interacts with a disk of gas or planetesimals, resulting in the alteration of the satellite's orbital parameters, especially its semi-major axis....
  

• Data migration
  Data migration
  
  Data migration is the process of transferring data between computer storage types, formats, or computer systems. Data migration is usually performed programmatically to achieve an automated migration, freeing up human resources from tedious tasks....
  , moving information between data storage devices
• Process migration
  Process migration
  
  Process migration is when process es in computer clusters are able to move from machine to machine. Process migration is implemented in, among others, OpenMosix....
  , in computer & application programming
• System migration
  System migration
  
  System migration involves moving a set of instructions or Computer program, i.e. PLC programs, from one Platform to another, minimizing Reengineering ....
  , moving computer programs from one platform to another

• "Migrate" (song), a song from Mariah Carey's album E=MC²
• Great Migrations (Greyhawk)
  Great Migrations (Greyhawk)
  
  In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, the Great Migrations is a general term applying to the migration of great hordes of Oeridians and Suloise humans into the Flanaess from western Oerik....
  , a concept in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game

• Piercing migration
  Piercing migration
  
  Piercing migration is the process that occurs when a body piercing moves from its initial location. This process can be painful or go unnoticed, until it has progressed....
  , in body modification, a process that occurs when a body piercing moves from its initial location

See also

• Diffusion
  Diffusion
  
  Molecular diffusion, often called simply diffusion, is a net transport of molecules from a region of higher concentration to one of lower concentration by random molecular motion....