Migration by soaring or flapping: Numerical atmospheric simulations reveal that turbulence kinetic energy dictates bee-eater flight mode

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1723, 2011, Pages 3380-3386

  Sapir, Nir ^a   Horvitz, Nir ^a   Wikelski, Martin ^b,c   Avissar, Roni ^d   Mahrer, Yitzhak ^a   Nathan, Ran ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotelemetry; Bird flight mode; Cross country flight; Merops apiaster; Numerical atmospheric simulations; Updraughts

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BIOTELEMETRY; BIRD; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; KINETIC ENERGY; METEOROLOGY; MIGRATION ROUTE; MIGRATORY SPECIES; MOVEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TURBULENCE;

ISRAEL;

APOIDEA; AVES; MEROPS APIASTER;

EID: 80053938978     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0358     Document Type: Article

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