Meteorological and environmental variables affect flight behaviour and decision‐making of an obligate soaring bird, the California Condor Gymnogyps californianus

SA Poessel, J Brandt, TA Miller, TE Katzner - Ibis, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The movements of animals are limited by evolutionary constraints and ecological processes
and are strongly influenced by the medium through which they travel. For flying animals …

A context-sensitive correlated random walk: a new simulation model for movement

SC Ahearn, S Dodge, A Simcharoen… - International Journal …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Computational Movement Analysis focuses on the characterization of the
trajectory of individuals across space and time. Various analytic techniques, including but …

Where eagles soar: Fine‐resolution tracking reveals the spatiotemporal use of differential soaring modes in a large raptor

M Murgatroyd, T Photopoulou, LG Underhill… - Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Unlike smaller raptors, which can readily use flapping flight, large raptors are mainly
restricted to soaring flight due to energetic constraints. Soaring comprises of two main …

The pros and cons of applying the movement ecology paradigm for studying animal dispersal

M Baguette, VM Stevens, J Clobert - Movement Ecology, 2014 - Springer
Understanding how dispersal movements are motivated and executed is the core business
of dispersal evolutionary ecology, which is an active research field in environmental …

Context-awareness in similarity measures and pattern discoveries of trajectories: a context-based dynamic time warping method

M Sharif, AA Alesheikh - GIScience & Remote Sensing, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Analyzing the spatial behaviors of moving-point objects (MPOs) and discovering their
movement patterns have been of great interest to the geographic information science …

BirdFlow: Learning seasonal bird movements from eBird data

M Fuentes, BM Van Doren, D Fink… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Large‐scale monitoring of seasonal animal movement is integral to science, conservation
and outreach. However, gathering representative movement data across entire species …

Leveraging similarity analysis to understand variability in movement behavior

Z Wan, S Dodge, G Bohrer - Transactions in GIS, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The increasingly large volume of trajectories of moving entities obtained through GPS and
cellphone tracking, telemetry, and other location‐aware technologies motivates researchers …

Migration routes and timing of European Nightjars (Caprimulgus europaeus) breeding in eastern Mongolia

M Lathouwers, R Nussbaumer, F Liechti… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
The phenology and routes of long-distance migrations of European Nightjars are well
described for Western European individuals migrating within the East Atlantic and …

Wind estimation based on thermal soaring of birds

R Weinzierl, G Bohrer, B Kranstauber… - Ecology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The flight performance of birds is strongly affected by the dynamic state of the atmosphere at
the birds' locations. Studies of flight and its impact on the movement ecology of birds must …

Contaminants in the southern tip of South America: analysis of organochlorine compounds in feathers of avian scavengers from Argentinean Patagonia

E Martínez-López, S Espín, F Barbar… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to assess the exposure to organochlorine compounds (OC) in 91
primary wing feathers of avian scavengers, Turkey vulture (Cathartes aura), American black …