Temperature change is an important departure cue in nocturnal migrants: controlled experiments with wild-caught birds in a proof-of-concept study

Decision-making in migratory birds at stopover: an interplay of energy stores and feeding conditions

(2020) Thomas Klinner et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Oxidative damage to lipids is rapidly reduced during migratory stopovers

(2020) Cas Eikenaar et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Stopover departure decisions in songbirds: do long-distance migrants depart earlier and more independently of weather conditions than medium-distance migrants?

(2020) Florian Packmor et al.   Movement Ecology

Weather at the winter and stopover areas determines spring migration onset, progress, and advancements in Afro-Palearctic migrant birds

(2020) Birgen Haest et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An exception to the rule: Captivity does not stress wild migrating northern wheatears

(2019) Cas Eikenaar et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

The frost wave hypothesis: How the environment drives autumn departure of migratory waterfowl

(2019) Fei Xu et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Autumn bird migration phenology: A potpourri of wind, precipitation and temperature effects

(2019) Birgen Haest et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Sleeping Unsafely Tucked in to Conserve Energy in a Nocturnal Migratory Songbird

(2019) Andrea Ferretti et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Arctic Geese Tune Migration to a Warming Climate but Still Suffer from a Phenological Mismatch

(2018) Thomas K. Lameris et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Proximate mechanisms affecting seasonal differences in migration speed of avian species

(2018) Heiko Schmaljohann   Scientific Reports

The influence of weather on avian spring migration phenology: What, where, and when?

(2018) Birgen Haest et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Flexible reaction norms to environmental variables along the migration route and the significance of stopover duration for total speed of migration in a songbird migrant

(2017) Heiko Schmaljohann et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Atmospheric conditions create freeways, detours and tailbacks for migrating birds

(2017) Judy Shamoun-Baranes et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

How do energy stores and changes in these affect departure decisions by migratory birds? A critical view on stopover ecology studies and some future perspectives

(2017) Heiko Schmaljohann et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

The limits of modifying migration speed to adjust to climate change

(2017) Heiko Schmaljohann et al.   Nature Climate Change

Effects of temperature and availability of insect prey on bat emergence from hibernation in spring

(2016) Gretchen A. Meyer et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Towards a conceptual framework for explaining variation in nocturnal departure time of songbird migrants

(2016) Florian Müller et al.   Movement Ecology

Satellite- versus temperature-derived green wave indices for predicting the timing of spring migration of avian herbivores

(2015) Mitra Shariati Najafabadi et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Causes and characteristics of reverse bird migration: an analysis based on radar, radio tracking and ringing at Falsterbo, Sweden

(2015) Cecilia Nilsson et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Migratory restlessness in captive individuals predicts actual departure in the wild

(2014) C. Eikenaar et al.   Biology Letters

Using observation-level random effects to model overdispersion in count data in ecology and evolution

(2014) Xavier A. Harrison   PeerJ

Stopover optimization in a long-distance migrant: the role of fuel load and nocturnal take-off time in Alaskan northern wheatears (Oenanthe oenanthe)

(2013) Heiko Schmaljohann et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

The exception to the rule: retreating ice front makes Bewick's swansCygnus columbianus bewickiimigrate slower in spring than in autumn

(2013) Rascha J. M. Nuijten et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Phenotypic response to environmental cues, orientation and migration costs in songbirds flying halfway around the world

(2012) Heiko Schmaljohann et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Drought in Africa Caused Delayed Arrival of European Songbirds

(2012) A. P. Tottrup et al.   SCIENCE

Simple, rapid, and non-invasive measurement of fat, lean, and total water masses of live birds using quantitative magnetic resonance

(2011) Christopher G. Guglielmo et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Individually tracked geese follow peaks of temperature acceleration during spring migration

(2011) Rien E. van Wijk et al.   OIKOS

Increase of extreme events in a warming world

(2011) S. Rahmstorf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Endogenous Rhythms of Seasonal Migratory Body Mass Changes and Nocturnal Restlessness in Different Populations of Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe

(2010) Ivan Maggini et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS

THE RELEVANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS FOR DEPARTURE DECISION CHANGES EN ROUTE IN MIGRATING GEESE

(2008) Silke Bauer et al.   ECOLOGY

Temperature and foraging success of Great Tits Parus major hunting for spiders

(2008) Mark I. Avery et al.   IBIS