The biological deserts fallacy: Cities in their landscapes contribute more than we think to regional biodiversity

EN Spotswood, EE Beller, R Grossinger, JL Grenier… - …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Cities are both embedded within and ecologically linked to their surrounding landscapes.
Although urbanization poses a substantial threat to biodiversity, cities also support many …

A systematic review of forest bird occurrence in North American forest fragments and the built environment

JMJ Archer, ME Hostetler, G Acomb, R Blair - Landscape and Urban …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Urban decision-makers typically cannot utilize empirical bird studies to create bird-friendly
landscape designs because academic results are often in a format that is not easily …

Landscape movements of migratory birds and bats reveal an expanded scale of stopover

PD Taylor, SA Mackenzie, BG Thurber, AM Calvert… - PLoS …, 2011‏ - journals.plos.org
Many species of birds and bats undertake seasonal migrations between breeding and over-
wintering sites. En-route, migrants alternate periods of flight with time spent at stopover–the …

Migration distance and body condition influence shorebird migration strategies and stopover decisions during southbound migration

AM Anderson, S Duijns, PA Smith, C Friis… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
Technological constraints have limited our ability to compare and determine the proximate
and ultimate drivers of migratory behavior in small-bodied birds. Small VHF transmitters (< …

Urban green roofs provide habitat for migrating and breeding birds and their arthropod prey

DR Partridge, JA Clark - PLoS One, 2018‏ - journals.plos.org
The world is rapidly urbanizing, and many previously biodiverse areas are now mostly
composed of impervious surface. This loss of natural habitat causes local bird communities …

The effects of wind and fuel stores on stopover departure behavior across a migratory barrier

BC Dossman, GW Mitchell, DR Norris… - Behavioral …, 2016‏ - academic.oup.com
During annual migrations between breeding and nonbreeding grounds, billions of land birds
encounter migratory barriers en route. Although birds are thought to be more selective (ie …

Environment, behavior and physiology: do birds use barometric pressure to predict storms?

CW Breuner, RS Sprague… - Journal of …, 2013‏ - journals.biologists.com
Severe storms can pose a grave challenge to the temperature and energy homeostasis of
small endothermic vertebrates. Storms are accompanied by lower temperatures and wind …

What to do when stop** over: behavioral decisions of a migrating songbird during stopover are dictated by initial change in their body condition and mediated by …

AD Smith, SR McWilliams - Behavioral Ecology, 2014‏ - academic.oup.com
The behavioral decisions of migratory songbirds during migration stopovers can markedly
influence the pace, efficiency, and success of migration. An individual's fuel stores are …

Biology of landbird migrants: a stopover perspective

FR Moore - The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 2018‏ - meridian.allenpress.com
This perspective on the stopover biology of migratory landbirds is organized around the
response of migrants to challenges that can arise during stopover and how events during …

Passerine migrant stopover duration and spatial behaviour at an urban stopover site

CL Seewagen, EJ Slayton, CG Guglielmo - Acta Oecologica, 2010‏ - Elsevier
Migration routes of many Nearctic–Neotropical landbirds pass through the most urbanized
regions of North America. Migrants are known to use urban habitats as stopover sites and …