Flying with the wind: Scale dependency of speed and direction measurements in modelling wind support in avian flight

Movement Ecology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Safi, Kamran ^a,b   Kranstauber, Bart ^a,b   Weinzierl, Rolf ^c   Griffin, Larry ^d   Rees, Eileen C ^d   Cabot, David ^e   Cruz, Sebastian ^a,b   Proaño, Carolina ^a,b   Takekawa, John Y ^f   Newman, Scott H ^g   Waldenström, Jonas ^h   Bengtsson, Daniel ^h   Kays, Roland ^i,j   Wikelski, Martin ^a,b   Bohrer, Gil ^k  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c Seehausen am Staffelsee   (Germany)

^d WILDFOWL AND WETLANDS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e Environmental Consultancy Services   (Ireland)

^f U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^g FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

^h LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^k The Ohio State University   (United States)

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Author keywords

Aves; Doppler shift; ECMWF; Flight direction; Flight speed; GPS; Measurement error; NOAA; Scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978129996     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20513933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2051-3933-1-4     Document Type: Article

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