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Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Global climate change affects many aspects of biology and has been shown to cause body size changes in animals. However, suitable datasets allowing the analysis of long‐term relationships between body size, climate, and its effects are rare.
Jan R. E. Taylor +4 more
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Health monitoring in birds using bio-loggers and whole blood transcriptomics
Scientific Reports, 2021 Monitoring and early detection of emerging infectious diseases in wild animals is of crucial global importance, yet reliable ways to measure immune status and responses are lacking for animals in the wild. Here we assess the usefulness of bio-loggers for
Elinor Jax +13 more
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Arctic Migratory Raptor Selects Nesting Area During the Previous Breeding Season
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Migratory species have a limited time for habitat selection upon arrival at the breeding grounds. This is especially evident in arctic migrants, which are restricted by a narrow window of opportunity when environmental conditions are favorable for ...
Teja Curk +8 more
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Ecology of animal migration [PDF]
Current Biology, 2018 Billions of animals are adapted to a travelling life, making regular return migrations between more or less distant living stations on Earth by swimming, flying, running or walking (Figure 1). Extremely long migrations are completed annually by whales between calving areas in warmer waters and feeding areas at higher latitudes in either hemisphere. The
Thomas, Alerstam, Johan, Bäckman
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Effect of harness design for tag attachment on the flight performance of five soaring species
Movement Ecology, 2023 Background Bio-logging devices play a fundamental and indispensable role in movement ecology studies, particularly in the wild. However, researchers are aware of the influence that attaching devices can have on animals, particularly on their behaviour ...
Arianna Longarini +5 more
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Collective animal migration [PDF]
Current Biology, 2018 Migratory movement is a strategy employed by a broad range of taxa as a response to temporally and spatially varying environmental conditions. Multiple factors can drive animal migration, including movement to hospitable environments when local conditions become unfavourable (such as to reduce nutritional and thermoregulatory stress), movement to find ...
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Classifying biogeographic realms of the endemic fauna in the Afro‐Arabian region
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Aim Understanding diversity patterns and identifying the environmental factors that shape these patterns are essential for ecology and conservation. The Afro‐Arabian region comprises one of the most important biogeographic areas connecting continents ...
Alaaeldin Soultan +2 more
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Opposition-Based Animal Migration Optimization [PDF]
Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2013 AMO is a simple and efficient optimization algorithm which is inspired by animal migration behavior. However, as most optimization algorithms, it suffers from premature convergence and often falls into local optima. This paper presents an opposition-based AMO algorithm. It employs opposition-based learning for population initialization and evolution to
Yi Cao, Xiangtao Li, Jianan Wang
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Movement Ecology, 2021 Background Different theories suggest birds may use compass or map navigational systems associated with Earth’s magnetic intensity or inclination, especially during migratory flights.
Beate Zein +6 more
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“Closer‐to‐home” strategy benefits juvenile survival in a long‐distance migratory bird
Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Human‐induced changes in the climate and environment that occur at an unprecedented speed are challenging the existence of migratory species. Faced with these new challenges, species with diverse and flexible migratory behaviors may suffer less from ...
Yachang Cheng +3 more
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