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Radar aeroecology: exploring the movements of aerial fauna through radio-wave remote sensing [PDF]

Biology Letters, 2012
An international and interdisciplinary Radar Aeroecology Workshop was held at the National Weather Center on 5–6 March 2012 on the University of Oklahoma campus in Norman, OK, USA. The workshop brought together biologists, meteorologists, radar engineers and computer scientists from 22 institutions and four countries.
Phillip B Chilson, Eli S Bridge, Winifred F Frick   +2 more
exaly   +6 more sources

Aeroecology: probing and modeling the aerosphere [PDF]

Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2007
(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Aeroecology is a discipline that embraces and integrates the domains of atmospheric science, ecology, earth science, geography, computer science, computational biology, and engineering. The unifying concept that underlies this emerging discipline is its focus on the planetary boundary layer, or ...
Kunz, TH, Gauthreaux, SA Jr, Hristov, NI, Horn, JW, Jones, G, Kalko, EKV, Larkin, RP, McCracken, GF, Swartz, SM, Srygley, RB, Dudley, R, Westbrook, JK, Wikelski, M   +12 more
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BATScan: A radar classification tool reveals large‐scale bat migration patterns

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Bat movement and behaviour are still mostly understudied over large scales. High‐altitude, nocturnal activity makes visual identification of bats from the ground virtually impossible, dramatically hindering our ability to study their movement ecology ...
Yuval Werber, Hadar Sextin, Yossi Yovel, Nir Sapir   +3 more
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The grand challenges of migration ecology that radar aeroecology can help answer [PDF]

Ecography, 2018
Many migratory species have experienced substantial declines that resulted from rapid and massive expansions of human structures and activities, habitat alterations and climate change. Migrants are also recognized as an integral component of biodiversity and provide a multitude of services and disservices that are relevant to human agriculture, economy
Bauer, Silke, Shamoun-Baranes, Judy, Nilsson, Cecilia, Farnsworth, Andrew, Kelly, Jeffrey F., Reynolds, Don R., Dokter, Adriaan M., Krauel, Jennifer F., Petterson, Lars B., Horton, Kyle G., Chapman, Jason W.   +10 more
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Quantifying range‐ and topographical biases in weather surveillance radar measures of migratory bird activity

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation
Weather radar systems have become a central tool in the study of nocturnal bird migration. Yet, while studies have sought to validate weather radar data through comparison to other sampling techniques, few have explicitly examined the impact of range and
Miguel F. Jimenez, Birgen Haest, Ali Khalighifar, Annika L. Abbott, Abigail Feuka, Aitao Liu, Kyle G. Horton   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Migration: Weather, Radars, and Aeroecology

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2012
Aeroecology is an emerging scientific discipline that integrates atmospheric science, Earth science, geography, ecology, computer science, computational biology, and engineering to further the understanding of biological patterns and processes. The unifying concept underlying this new transdisciplinary field of study is a focus on the planetary ...
Chilson, Phillip B., Frick, Winifred F., Kelly, Jeffrey F., Howard, Kenneth W., Larkin, Ronald P., Diehl, Robert H., Westbrook, John K., Kelly, T. Adam, Kunz, Thomas H.   +8 more
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BATS: Bat‐aggregated time series—A python‐based toolkit for landscape‐level monitoring of free‐tailed bats via weather radar

Methods in Ecology and Evolution
The US operates a system of 160 S‐band Doppler weather radars known as NEXRAD (NEXt generation weather RADar) that continuously monitors the airspace around the majority of the United States and outlying territories.
Brian Lee, Alex Rich, Robert H. Diehl, Ashley Larsen   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

High‐latitude night shortening forces birds to accept increasingly diurnal migration to maintain flight duration

Journal of Avian Biology
The ecological pressures that maintain the behavioral preferences of avian migrants, such as the timing and duration of nocturnal flights, remain elusive yet are critical to understand the evolution of the migratory program.
Ashwin H. Sivakumar, Daniel Sheldon, Kyle G. Horton   +2 more
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Long‐term analysis of persistence and size of swallow and martin roosts in the US Great Lakes

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2023
In this study, we combined a machine learning pipeline and human supervision to identify and label swallow and martin roost locations on data captured from 2000 to 2020 by 12 Weather Surveillance Radars in the Great Lakes region of the US.
Maria Carolina T. D. Belotti, Yuting Deng, Wenlong Zhao, Victoria F. Simons, Zezhou Cheng, Gustavo Perez, Elske Tielens, Subhransu Maji, Daniel Sheldon, Jeffrey F. Kelly, Kyle G. Horton   +10 more
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Taxonomic resolution in dual‐polarization weather radar observations of biological scatterers: A systematic review

Ecosphere
The derivation of biological information—abundance, diversity, movement of organisms—from dual‐polarization weather surveillance radars (WSRs) presents an opportunity for novel large‐scale biodiversity monitoring.
Tommy Matthews, Ryan R. Neely III, Valery Melnikov, Christopher Hassall   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources