Migration behaviour of long- and medium-distance songbird migrants

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Heiko Schmaljohann
• Subject Area: Ecology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions
• Term: from 2013 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 237652652

• Final Report Year: 2020

Final Report Abstract

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Publications

• Towards a concep-tual framework for explaining variation in the nocturnal departure time of songbird migrants. Movement Ecology, Vol. 4. 2016, Article number: 24.
  Müller F., Taylor P.D., Sjöberg S., Muheim R., Tsvey A., Mackenzie S.A., Schmaljohann H.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-016-0089-2)
• How do energy stores and changes in these affect departure decisions by migratory birds? – A critical view on stopover ecology studies and some future perspectives. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, Vol. 203. 2017, pp. 411–429.
  Schmaljohann H., Eikenaar C.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-017-1166-8)
• The limits of modifying migration speed to adjust to climate change. Nature Climate Change, Vol. 7. 2017, pp. 573–576.
  Schmaljohann H., Both C.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/NCLIMATE3336)
• Nocturnal departure timing in songbirds facing distinct migratory challenges. Journal of Animal Ecology, Vol. 87. 2018, Issue 4: Special Feature: Linking organismal functions, life history strategies and population performance, pp. 1102-1115.
  Müller F., Eikenaar C., Crysler Z.J., Taylor P.D., Schmaljohann H.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12821)
• Proximate mechanisms affecting seasonal differences in migration speed of avian species. Scientific Reports, Vol. 8. 2018, Article number: 4106.
  Schmaljohann H.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-22421-7)
• The start of migration correlates with arrival timing, and the total speed of migration increases with migration distance in migratory songbirds: a cross-continental analysis. Movement Ecology, Vol. 7. 2019, Article number: 25.
  Schmaljohann H.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-019-0169-1)
• Decision-making in migratory birds at stopover: an interplay of energy stores and feeding conditions. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 74. 2020, Issue 1, Article number: 10.
  Klinner T., Buddemeier J., Bairlein F., Schmaljohann H.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-019-2784-7)
• Stopover departure decisions in songbirds: do long-distance migrants depart earlier and more independently of weather conditions than medi-um-distance migrants? Movement Ecology, Vol. 8. 2020, Article number: 6.
  Packmor F., Klinner T., Woodworth B.K., Eikenaar C., Schmaljohann H.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-020-0193-1)