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 …

Why we need to focus on develo** ethical, responsible, and trustworthy artificial intelligence approaches for environmental science

A McGovern, I Ebert-Uphoff, DJ Gagne… - Environmental Data …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Given the growing use of Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) methods
across all aspects of environmental sciences, it is imperative that we initiate a discussion …

In-service teachers'(mis) conceptions of artificial intelligence in K-12 science education

P Antonenko, B Abramowitz - Journal of Research on Technology …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Society's future depends on informed perspectives of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI related
skills, a prognosis that greatly impacts K-12 education. To best prepare students to be AI …

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 …

Estimating the movements of terrestrial animal populations using broad-scale occurrence data

SR Supp, G Bohrer, J Fieberg, FA La Sorte - Movement Ecology, 2021 - Springer
As human and automated sensor networks collect increasingly massive volumes of animal
observations, new opportunities have arisen to use these data to infer or track species …

Discrimination of biological scatterers in polarimetric weather radar data: Opportunities and challenges

S Gauthreaux, R Diehl - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
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 …

Drivers of fatal bird collisions in an urban center

BM Van Doren, DE Willard, M Hennen… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Millions of nocturnally migrating birds die each year from collisions with built structures,
especially brightly illuminated buildings and communication towers. Reducing this source of …

A place to land: spatiotemporal drivers of stopover habitat use by migrating birds

EB Cohen, KG Horton, PP Marra, HL Clipp… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Migrating birds require en route habitats to rest and refuel. Yet, habitat use has never been
integrated with passage to understand the factors that determine where and when birds …

Space weather disrupts nocturnal bird migration

ER Gulson-Castillo, BM Van Doren… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Space weather, including solar storms, can impact Earth by disturbing the geomagnetic field.
Despite the known dependence of birds and other animals on geomagnetic cues for …