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Ecography, Volume 2023, Issue 8, August 2023., 2023 More than two billion birds migrate through the Gulf of Mexico each spring en route to breeding grounds in the USA and Canada. This region has a long history of complex natural and anthropogenic environments as the northern Gulf coast provides the first possible stopover habitats for migrants making nonstop trans‐Gulf crossings during spring migration.
Annika L. Abbott +4 more
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Remote Sensing, 2020 For radar aeroecology studies, the identification of the type of scatterer is critically important. Here, we used a random forest (RF) algorithm to develop a variety of scatterer classification models based on the backscatter values in radar resolution ...
Sidney Gauthreaux, Robert Diehl
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Broad-Scale Weather Patterns Encountered during Flight Influence Landbird Stopover Distributions
Remote Sensing, 2020 The dynamic weather conditions that migrating birds experience during flight likely influence where they stop to rest and refuel, particularly after navigating inhospitable terrain or large water bodies, but effects of weather on stopover patterns remain
Hannah L. Clipp +5 more
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The aeroecology of atmospheric convergence zones: the case of Pallid swifts
, 2021 Trans-Saharan migratory bird species encounter large scale seasonal atmospheric convergence zones, where opposing monsoon and continental air masses meet.
Costa, Luís T. +10 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2016 Bioacoustic localization of bird vocalizations provides unattended observations of the location of calling individuals in many field applications. While this technique has been successful in monitoring terrestrial distributions of calling birds, no ...
Phillip M. Stepanian +5 more
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Remote Sensing, 2020 The daytime atmospheric boundary layer is characterized by vertical convective motions that are driven by solar radiation. Lift provided by thermal updrafts is sufficiently ubiquitous that some diurnal birds and arthropods have evolved specialized flight
Phillip M. Stepanian +1 more
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Using cloud radar to investigate the effect of rainfall on migratory insect flight
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 The fate of migrating insects that encounter rainfall in flight is a critical consideration when modelling insect movement, but few field observations of this common phenomenon have ever been collected due to the logistical challenges of witnessing these
Charlotte E. Wainwright +4 more
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An Aeroecological Assessment of Aircraft Bird Strike Predictability Using Weather Radar and Citizen Science [PDF]
, 2021 World-wide air traffic has increased at an average rate of 1.8% per year since the 1980s. With this increase in aviation, there has been a marked intensification of aircraft-wildlife collisions netting an estimate of nearly $1.2 billion * year-1 in ...
DiPilla, Alisha
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Remote Sensing, 2019 Quantifying nocturnal bird migration at high resolution is essential for (1) understanding the phenology of migration and its drivers, (2) identifying critical spatio-temporal protection zones for migratory birds, and (3) assessing the risk of collision ...
Raphaël Nussbaumer +5 more
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Wind prevents cliff-breeding birds from accessing nests through loss of flight control
eLife, 2019 For fast-flying birds, the ability to respond to wind during landing is critical, as errors can lead to injury or even death. Nonetheless, landing ability, and its ecological significance, remain unstudied.
Emily Shepard +4 more
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