The aeroecology of atmospheric convergence zones: the case of pallid swifts

Zonally contrasting shifts of the tropical rain belt in response to climate change

(2021) Antonios Mamalakis et al.   Nature Climate Change

Temporal scale of habitat selection for large carnivores: Balancing energetics, risk and finding prey

(2021) Anna C. Nisi et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Birds with multiple homes. The annual cycle of the pallid swift (Apus pallidus brehmorum)

(2021) Stewart Finlayson et al.   PLoS One

The gateway to Africa: What determines sea crossing performance of a migratory soaring bird at the Strait of Gibraltar?

(2020) Carlos David Santos et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The ERA5 Global Reanalysis

(2020) Hans Hersbach et al.   QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Seasonal insect migrations: massive, influential, and overlooked

(2020) Dara A Satterfield et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Climate anomalies affect annual survival rates of swifts wintering in sub‐Saharan Africa

(2020) Giovanni Boano et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Evolution of chain migration in an aerial insectivorous bird, the common swift Apus apus

(2020) Susanne Åkesson et al.   EVOLUTION

Arthropod biomass increase in spring correlates with NDVI in grassland habitat

(2020) Mario Fernández-Tizón et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Diversity, dynamics, direction, and magnitude of high-altitude migrating insects in the Sahel

(2020) Jenna Florio et al.   Scientific Reports

Non-breeding flight activity in pallid swifts Apus pallidus

(2019) Anders Hedenström et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Animal movement tools (amt ): R package for managing tracking data and conducting habitat selection analyses

(2019) Johannes Signer et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Characteristics of land and sea breezes along the Guinea Coast of West Africa

(2019) Amadou Coulibaly et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

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

(2019) Birgen Haest et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Volume-concentrated searching by an aerial insectivore, the common swift, Apus apus

(2018) Emmanuel de Margerie et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

What makes Alpine swift ascend at twilight? Novel geolocators reveal year-round flight behaviour

(2018) Christoph M. Meier et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

The ITCZ and the Seasonal Cycle over Equatorial Africa

(2018) Sharon E. Nicholson   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

momentuHMM : R package for generalized hidden Markov models of animal movement

(2018) Brett T. McClintock et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Revealing patterns of nocturnal migration using the European weather radar network

(2018) Cecilia Nilsson et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Gliding for a free lunch: biomechanics of foraging flight in common swifts (Apus apus)

(2018) Tyson L. Hedrick et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Highly mobile insectivorous swifts perform multiple intra-tropical migrations to exploit an asynchronous African phenology

(2018) Gabriel Norevik et al.   OIKOS

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

Mapping evaporative water loss in desert passerines reveals an expanding threat of lethal dehydration

(2017) Thomas P. Albright et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Relative Selection Strength: Quantifying effect size in habitat- and step-selection inference

(2017) Tal Avgar et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Annual 10-Month Aerial Life Phase in the Common Swift Apus apus

(2016) Anders Hedenström et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Orientation in high-flying migrant insects in relation to flows: mechanisms and strategies

(2016) Andy M. Reynolds et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Integrated step selection analysis: bridging the gap between resource selection and animal movement

(2016) Tal Avgar et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Food habits and resource partitioning in a guild of Neotropical swifts

(2015) Charles T. Collins   Wilson Journal of Ornithology

Projected increase in lightning strikes in the United States due to global warming

(2014) D. M. Romps et al.   SCIENCE

MODISTools - downloading and processing MODIS remotely sensed data in R

(2014) Sean L. Tuck et al.   Ecology and Evolution

West African monsoon demise: Climatology, interannual variations, and relationship to seasonal rainfall

(2014) Gang Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Applications of step-selection functions in ecology and conservation

(2014) Henrik Thurfjell et al.   Movement Ecology

Twilight ascents by common swifts, Apus apus, at dawn and dusk: acquisition of orientation cues?

(2013) Adriaan M. Dokter et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Multiple Weather Factors Affect Apparent Survival of European Passerine Birds

(2013) Volker Salewski et al.   PLoS One

On the characteristics of sea breezes over Nigerian coastal region

(2013) Abayomi A. Abatan et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

First evidence of a 200-day non-stop flight in a bird

(2013) Felix Liechti et al.   Nature Communications

Sea breezes at Cotonou and their interaction with the West African monsoon

(2012) A. S. Bajamgnigni Gbambie et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

A dynamic Brownian bridge movement model to estimate utilization distributions for heterogeneous animal movement

(2012) Bart Kranstauber et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Quantifying flow-assistance and implications for movement research

(2012) Michael U. Kemp et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Optimal bird migration revisited

(2011) Thomas Alerstam   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Integrating Meteorology into Research on Migration

(2010) J. Shamoun-Baranes et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Variability of the Intertropical Front (ITF) and Rainfall over the West African Sudan–Sahel Zone

(2010) M. Issa Lélé et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Observations of the Nocturnal Boundary Layer Associated with the West African Monsoon

(2010) Caroline L. Bain et al.   MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW

A revised picture of the structure of the “monsoon” and land ITCZ over West Africa

(2009) Sharon E. Nicholson   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Flight speeds of swifts (Apus apus): seasonal differences smaller than expected

(2009) P. Henningsson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

CONTINUOUS-TIME CORRELATED RANDOM WALK MODEL FOR ANIMAL TELEMETRY DATA

(2008) Devin S. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY

Habitat use by Palaearctic migrant passerine birds in West Africa

(2008) GERARD J. MOREL et al.   IBIS

Flight characteristics of birds:

(2008) BRUNO BRUDERER et al.   IBIS