Atmospheric conditions create freeways, detours and tailbacks for migrating birds

J Shamoun-Baranes, F Liechti… - Journal of Comparative …, 2017 - Springer
The extraordinary adaptations of birds to contend with atmospheric conditions during their
migratory flights have captivated ecologists for decades. During the 21st century …

Major stopover regions and migratory bottlenecks for Nearctic-Neotropical landbirds within the Neotropics: a review

NJ Bayly, KV Rosenberg, WE Easton… - Bird Conservation …, 2018 - cambridge.org
Nearly 300 species of landbirds, whose populations total billions, migrate between the
Neotropics and North America. Many migratory populations are in steep decline, and …

Artificial light at night is a top predictor of bird migration stopover density

KG Horton, JJ Buler, SJ Anderson, CS Burt… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
As billions of nocturnal avian migrants traverse North America, twice a year they must
contend with landscape changes driven by natural and anthropogenic forces, including the …

Phenology of nocturnal avian migration has shifted at the continental scale

KG Horton, FA La Sorte, D Sheldon, TY Lin… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Climate change induced phenological shifts in primary productivity result in trophic
mismatches for many organisms,,–, with broad implications for ecosystem structure and …

Autumn stopover hotspots and multiscale habitat associations of migratory landbirds in the eastern United States

F Guo, JJ Buler, JA Smolinsky… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Halting the global decline of migratory birds requires a better understanding of migration
ecology. Stopover sites are a crucial yet understudied aspect of bird conservation, mostly …

Spatial thinning and class balancing: Key choices lead to variation in the performance of species distribution models with citizen science data

VA Steen, MW Tingley, PWC Paton… - Methods in Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial biases are a common feature of presence–absence data from citizen scientists.
Spatial thinning can mitigate errors in species distribution models (SDMs) that use these …

Taking a 'Big Data'approach to data quality in a citizen science project

S Kelling, D Fink, FA La Sorte, A Johnston, NE Bruns… - Ambio, 2015 - Springer
Data from well-designed experiments provide the strongest evidence of causation in
biodiversity studies. However, for many species the collection of these data is not scalable to …

Autumn bird migration phenology: A potpourri of wind, precipitation and temperature effects

B Haest, O Hüppop, M van de Pol… - Global Change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change has caused a clear and univocal trend towards advancement in spring
phenology. Changes in autumn phenology are much more diverse, with advancement …

[HTML][HTML] Epidemiological hypothesis testing using a phylogeographic and phylodynamic framework

S Dellicour, S Lequime, B Vrancken, MS Gill… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Computational analyses of pathogen genomes are increasingly used to unravel the
dispersal history and transmission dynamics of epidemics. Here, we show how to go beyond …

Seasonal associations with urban light pollution for nocturnally migrating bird populations

FA La Sorte, D Fink, JJ Buler, A Farnsworth… - Global Change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The spatial extent and intensity of artificial light at night (ALAN) has increased worldwide
through the growth of urban environments. There is evidence that nocturnally migrating birds …