Wind estimation based on thermal soaring of birds

Behavioural adaptations to flight into thin air

(2016) Sherub Sherub et al.   Biology Letters

Using High-Resolution GPS Tracking Data of Bird Flight for Meteorological Observations

(2016) Jelle Treep et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

The challenges of the first migration: movement and behaviour of juvenile vs. adult white storks with insights regarding juvenile mortality

(2016) Shay Rotics et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Decision-making by a soaring bird: time, energy and risk considerations at different spatio-temporal scales

(2016) Roi Harel et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Multidimensional differentiation in foraging resource use during breeding of two sympatric top predators

(2016) Guilad Friedemann et al.   Scientific Reports

Costs of migratory decisions: A comparison across eight white stork populations

(2016) A. Flack et al.   Science Advances

Adult vultures outperform juveniles in challenging thermal soaring conditions

(2016) Roi Harel et al.   Scientific Reports

Global aerial flyways allow efficient travelling

(2015) B. Kranstauber et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Fat, weather, and date affect migratory songbirds’ departure decisions, routes, and time it takes to cross the Gulf of Mexico

(2015) Jill L. Deppe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet

(2015) R. Kays et al.   SCIENCE

Individual improvements and selective mortality shape lifelong migratory performance

(2014) Fabrizio Sergio et al.   NATURE

Environmental drivers of variability in the movement ecology of turkey vultures (Cathartes aura) in North and South America

(2014) S. Dodge et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Satellite remote sensing, biodiversity research and conservation of the future

(2014) N. Pettorelli et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Elephant movement closely tracks precipitation-driven vegetation dynamics in a Kenyan forest-savanna landscape

(2014) Gil Bohrer et al.   Movement Ecology

In search of greener pastures: Using satellite images to predict the effects of environmental change on zebra migration

(2013) Hattie L. A. Bartlam-Brooks et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

The environmental-data automated track annotation (Env-DATA) system: linking animal tracks with environmental data

(2013) Somayeh Dodge et al.   Movement Ecology

Individuality in bird migration: routes and timing

(2011) Y. Vardanis et al.   Biology Letters

Estimating updraft velocity components over large spatial scales: contrasting migration strategies of golden eagles and turkey vultures

(2011) Gil Bohrer et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The Movebank data model for animal tracking

(2011) B. Kranstauber et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

Riding the tide: intriguing observations of gulls resting at sea during breeding

(2011) JUDY SHAMOUN-BARANES et al.   IBIS

Migration by soaring or flapping: numerical atmospheric simulations reveal that turbulence kinetic energy dictates bee-eater flight mode

(2011) N. Sapir et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The ERA-Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system

(2011) D. P. Dee et al.   QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Influence of weather conditions on the flight of migrating black storks

(2010) D. Chevallier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Linking foraging behaviour to physical oceanographic structures: Southern elephant seals and mesoscale eddies east of Kerguelen Islands

(2010) Anne-Cecile Dragon et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Flight Orientation Behaviors Promote Optimal Migration Trajectories in High-Flying Insects

(2010) J. W. Chapman et al.   SCIENCE

Trans-Sahara migrants select flight altitudes to minimize energy costs rather than water loss

(2009) Heiko Schmaljohann et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

The Secret Life of Oilbirds: New Insights into the Movement Ecology of a Unique Avian Frugivore

(2009) Richard A. Holland et al.   PLoS One

Flexibility in daily travel routines causes regional variation in bird migration speed

(2008) Raymond H. G. Klaassen et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Southern Ocean frontal structure and sea-ice formation rates revealed by elephant seals

(2008) J.-B. Charrassin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Comparing bird and human soaring strategies

(2008) Z. Akos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A movement ecology paradigm for unifying organismal movement research

(2008) R. Nathan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Extreme endurance flights by landbirds crossing the Pacific Ocean: ecological corridor rather than barrier?

(2008) R. E Gill et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES