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Remote Sensing in Ecology and ConservationStudying nocturnal bird migration is challenging because direct visual observations are difficult during darkness. Radar has been the means of choice to study nocturnal bird migration for several decades, but provides limited taxonomic information. Here,
Silvia Giuntini +6 more
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Using spatiotemporal information in weather radar data to detect and track communal roosts
Remote Sensing in Ecology and ConservationThe exodus of flying animals from their roosting locations is often visible as expanding ring‐shaped patterns in weather radar data. The NEXRAD network, for example, archives more than 25 years of data across 143 contiguous US radar stations, providing ...
Gustavo Perez +10 more
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Systematic Continental Scale Monitoring by Weather Surveillance Radar Shows Fewer Insects Above Warming Landscapes in the United States. [PDF]
Glob Chang BiolSystematic remote sensed monitoring of insect density in the air shows fewer insects above warming landscapes in the United States. We estimate insect density at continental scales for the first time by leveraging the nationwide network of weather radars.
Tielens EK, Stepanian PM, Kelly JF.
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What causes bird-building collision risk? Seasonal dynamics and weather drivers. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2023 Collisions with buildings are an important source of bird mortality in urban environments. Here, we show that collisions are driven by specific weather conditions during spring and autumn migration and that most collision mortality occurs within a relatively small proportion of days.
Scott KM, Danko A, Plant P, Dakin R.
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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 +12 more
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Shifts in avian migration phenologies do not compensate for changes to conditions en route in spring and fall. [PDF]
EcologyAbstract Several factors are known to affect bird migration timing, but no study has simultaneously compared the effects of temperature, land surface phenology, vegetation greenness, and relative humidity in both spring and fall. In addition, it is unclear whether long‐term shifts in migration phenologies have kept pace with changing climates.
Adams CA +3 more
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Turbulence: A Significant Role in Clear-Air Echoes of CINRAD/SA at Night
Remote Sensing, 2023 It is commonly believed that clear-air echoes detected by weather radars are caused by atmobios migration. However, clear-air echoes are sometimes inconsistently related to the activity of living creatures.
Yupeng Teng +3 more
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Aeroscapes and the Sensory Ecology of Olfaction in a Tropical Dry Forest
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Aeroscapes—dynamic patterns of air speed and direction—form a critical component of landscape ecology by shaping numerous animal behaviors, including movement, foraging, and social and/or reproductive interactions.
Allegra DePasquale +5 more
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Seasonal Trends in Movement Patterns of Birds and Insects Aloft Simultaneously Recorded by Radar
Remote Sensing, 2021 Airspace is a key but not well-understood habitat for many animal species. Enormous amounts of insects and birds use the airspace to forage, disperse, and migrate.
Xu Shi +4 more
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