Navigating north: how body mass and winds shape avian flight behaviours across a North American migratory flyway

Bird Migration: Life on the High Seas

(2018) Stephen Votier   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Projected changes in prevailing winds for transatlantic migratory birds under global warming

(2017) Frank A. La Sorte et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Wind conditions and geography shape the first outbound migration of juvenile honey buzzards and their distribution across sub-Saharan Africa

(2017) W. M. G. Vansteelant et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Global change and ecosystem connectivity: How geese link fields of central Europe to eutrophication of Arctic freshwaters

(2016) Dag O. Hessen et al.   AMBIO

Seasonal differences in landbird migration strategies

(2016) Kyle G. Horton et al.   AUK

Wind drift explains the reoriented morning flights of songbirds

(2016) Benjamin M. Van Doren et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Where in the air? Aerial habitat use of nocturnally migrating birds

(2016) Kyle G. Horton et al.   Biology Letters

A characterization of autumn nocturnal migration detected by weather surveillance radars in the northeastern USA

(2016) Andrew Farnsworth et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Migration distance, ecological barriers and en-route variation in the migratory behaviour of terrestrial bird populations

(2016) Frank A. La Sorte et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Toward a predictive macrosystems framework for migration ecology

(2016) Jeffrey F. Kelly et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The role of the US Great Plains low-level jet in nocturnal migrant behavior

(2016) Charlotte E. Wainwright et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

Seasonal detours by soaring migrants shaped by wind regimes along the East Atlantic Flyway

(2016) Wouter M. G. Vansteelant et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Negotiating an ecological barrier: crossing the Sahara in relation to winds by common swifts

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

Convergence of broad-scale migration strategies in terrestrial birds

(2016) Frank A. La Sorte et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Nocturnally migrating songbirds drift when they can and compensate when they must

(2016) Kyle G. Horton et al.   Scientific Reports

Dual-polarization radar products for biological applications

(2016) Phillip M. Stepanian et al.   Ecosphere

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

(2016) A. Flack et al.   Science Advances

Weather and fuel reserves determine departure and flight decisions in passerines migrating across the Baltic Sea

(2015) Sissel Sjöberg et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

A comparison of traffic estimates of nocturnal flying animals using radar, thermal imaging, and acoustic recording

(2015) Kyle G. Horton et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Global aerial flyways allow efficient travelling

(2015) B. Kranstauber et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Long-range seasonal migration in insects: mechanisms, evolutionary drivers and ecological consequences

(2015) Jason W. Chapman et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Extracting Migrant Flight Orientation Profiles Using Polarimetric Radar

(2015) Phillip M. Stepanian et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING

Adaptive strategies in nocturnally migrating insects and songbirds: contrasting responses to wind

(2015) Jason W. Chapman et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Migration timing and its determinants for nocturnal migratory birds during autumn migration

(2015) Frank A. La Sorte et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Big questions, big science: meeting the challenges of global ecology

(2015) David Schimel et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

Seasonal changes in the altitudinal distribution of nocturnally migrating birds during autumn migration

(2015) Frank A. La Sorte et al.   Royal Society Open Science

True navigation in migrating gulls requires intact olfactory nerves

(2015) Martin Wikelski et al.   Scientific Reports

The role of atmospheric conditions in the seasonal dynamics of North American migration flyways

(2014) Frank A. La Sorte et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Individual improvements and selective mortality shape lifelong migratory performance

(2014) Fabrizio Sergio et al.   NATURE

Photoperiod constraints on tree phenology, performance and migration in a warming world

(2014) DANIELLE A. WAY et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Spring phenology of ecological productivity contributes to the use of looped migration strategies by birds

(2014) F. A. La Sorte et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Migratory Animals Couple Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning Worldwide

(2014) S. Bauer et al.   SCIENCE

The eBird enterprise: An integrated approach to development and application of citizen science

(2013) Brian L. Sullivan et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Population-level scaling of avian migration speed with body size and migration distance for powered fliers

(2013) Frank A. La Sorte et al.   ECOLOGY

Big data and the future of ecology

(2013) Stephanie E Hampton et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Observed trends in the global jet stream characteristics during the second half of the 20th century

(2013) Cristina Pena-Ortiz et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Individual dispersal, landscape connectivity and ecological networks

(2012) Michel Baguette et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Flight responses by a migratory soaring raptor to changing meteorological conditions

(2012) M. J. Lanzone et al.   Biology Letters

Evidence linking Arctic amplification to extreme weather in mid-latitudes

(2012) Jennifer A. Francis et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Quantifying flow-assistance and implications for movement research

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

Intensification of Northern Hemisphere subtropical highs in a warming climate

(2012) Wenhong Li et al.   Nature Geoscience

Spatiotemporal Variation in Avian Migration Phenology: Citizen Science Reveals Effects of Climate Change

(2012) Allen H. Hurlbert et al.   PLoS One

Costs of dispersal

(2011) Dries Bonte et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Animal Orientation Strategies for Movement in Flows

(2011) Jason W. Chapman et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Data-intensive science applied to broad-scale citizen science

(2011) Wesley M. Hochachka et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Spatiotemporal exploratory models for broad-scale survey data

(2010) Daniel Fink et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Bird migration flight altitudes studied by a network of operational weather radars

(2010) A. M. Dokter et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Geographical and temporal flexibility in the response to crosswinds by migrating raptors

(2010) R. H. G. Klaassen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Quantifying Bird Density During Migratory Stopover Using Weather Surveillance Radar

(2009) J.J. Buler et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING

Migration and orientation of passerine night migrants in northeast England

(2009) P. R. Evans   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

A new dawn for citizen science

(2009) Jonathan Silvertown   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Historical trends in the jet streams

(2008) Cristina L. Archer et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

THE MECHANICS OF BIRD MIGRATION

(2008) C. J. Pennycuick   IBIS

Springtime Intensification of the Great Plains Low-Level Jet and Midwest Precipitation in GCM Simulations of the Twenty-First Century

(2008) Kerry H. Cook et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Search and navigation in dynamic environments – from individual behaviors to population distributions

(2008) Thomas Mueller et al.   OIKOS

Adaptations to migration in birds: behavioural strategies, morphology and scaling effects

(2007) A. Hedenstrom   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES