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Large birds travel farther in homogeneous environments

Journal Article · · Global Ecology and Biogeography
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12875· OSTI ID:1613297
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  1. Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research CentreSenckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung Frankfurt (Main) Germany; Department of Biological SciencesGoethe University Frankfurt (Main) Germany
  2. Society for the Protection of Prespa Prespa Greece
  3. Biology DepartmentUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte North Carolina
  4. Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Acopian Center for Conservation Learning Orwigsburg Pennsylvania
  5. Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research CentreSenckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung Frankfurt (Main) Germany
  6. Reese Institute for Conservation of Natural Resources, Lenoir‐Rhyne University Hickory North Carolina
  7. HawkWatch International Salt Lake City Utah; Biodiversity and Conservation Ecology LaboratoryUniversity of Utah Salt Lake City Utah
  8. School of Biological, Earth and Environmental ScienceUniversity College Cork Cork Ireland
  9. Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park Front Royal Virginia; Department of BiologyUniversity of Maryland College Park Maryland
  10. Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das FlorestasParque Natural do Vale do Guadiana, Centro Polivalente de Divulgação da Casa do Lanternim Mértola Portugal
  11. Phillip Island Nature Parks Victoria Australia; School of Biological SciencesMonash University Clayton Australia
  12. Florida Museum of Natural History Gainesville Florida; Department of BiologyUniversity of Florida Gainesville Florida; College of Science and EngineeringJames Cook University Cairns Australia
  13. Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic EngineeringThe Ohio State University Columbus Ohio; Department of Migration and Immuno‐EcologyMax Planck Institute for Ornithology Radolfzell Germany
  14. BirdLife Denmark Copenhagen Denmark
  15. Biodiversity Research Institute Portland Maine
  16. Raptor View Research Institute Missoula Montana
  17. Storch Schweiz Kreuzlingen Switzerland
  18. Department of BiologyUniversity of Maryland College Park Maryland
  19. Conservation Ecology, Faculty of BiologyPhilipps‐University Marburg Marburg Germany
  20. Department of Migration and Immuno‐EcologyMax Planck Institute for Ornithology Radolfzell Germany; Department of BiologyUniversity of Konstanz Konstanz Germany
  21. Arctic Raptors Project Nunavut Canada; Department of Biological ScienceUniversity of Alberta Edmonton Canada
  22. Department of Integrative BiologyUniversity of Guelph Guelph Canada
  23. Vertebrates Zoology Research GroupUniversity of Alicante Alicante Spain; Environment Science and Solutions SL Valencia Spain
  24. Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et EvolutiveUMR 5175, CNRS – Université de Montpellier – Université Paul‐Valéry Montpellier – EPHE Montpellier France; Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST‐NRF Centre of ExcellenceUniversity of Cape Town Rondebosch South Africa
  25. Wildfowl &, Wetlands Trust, Caerlaverock Wetland Centre Caerlaverock UK
  26. Movement Ecology Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Evolution and BehaviorAlexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem Israel
  27. School of Biology and Environmental Science and Earth InstituteUniversity College Dublin Dublin Ireland
  28. North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences Raleigh North Carolina; Department of Forestry and Environmental ResourcesNorth Carolina State University Raleigh North Carolina
  29. Department of Migration and Immuno‐EcologyMax Planck Institute for Ornithology Radolfzell Germany; Ecology &, Biodiversity Group, Institute of Environmental BiologyUtrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands
  30. International Crane Foundation Baraboo Wisconsin
  31. Department of Migration and Immuno‐EcologyMax Planck Institute for Ornithology Radolfzell Germany; Lamont‐Doherty Earth ObservatoryColumbia University Palisades New York
  32. Departamento de Didáctica General y Didácticas EspecíficasUniversity of Alicante Alicante Spain
  33. University of Valencia, Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary BiologyTerrestrial Vertebrates Group Valencia Spain
  34. Biology DepartmentFriends University Wichita Kansas
  35. Center for Conservation Biology, College of William and MaryVirginia Commonwealth University Williamsburg Virginia; EDM International, Inc Fort Collins Colorado
  36. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsRegional Office for Africa Accra Ghana
  37. RSPB Centre for Conservation ScienceRoyal Society for the Protection of Birds Cambridge UK
  38. Arctic Raptors Project Nunavut Canada
  39. Wildfowl &, Wetlands Trust Gloucester UK
  40. Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de ChizéUMR7372 CNRS Université de La Rochelle Villiers‐en‐Bois France
  41. Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, Institute of EvolutionUniversity of Haifa Haifa Israel
  42. BirdLife Österreich Vienna Austria
  43. Storch Schweiz Kreuzlingen Switzerland; Schulz Wildlife Consulting Bergenhusen Germany
  44. Faculty of Geo‐Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC)University of Twente Enschede The Netherlands
  45. CIBIO/InBIO Associate LaboratoryUniversidade do Porto Vairão Portugal; Centre for Applied Ecology ‘Prof. Baeta Neves’/InBIO Associate LaboratoryInstituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa Lisbon Portugal; Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental ChangesFaculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa Lisbon Portugal
  46. Ecology and Environment DepartmentDHI Hørsholm Denmark
  47. School of Zoology, Faculty of Life SciencesTel Aviv University Tel Aviv Israel
  48. U.S. Geological SurveyWestern Ecological Research Center Vallejo California; Suisun Resource Conservation District Suisun City California
  49. Odum School of EcologyUniversity of Georgia Athens Georgia
  50. Department of Migration and Immuno‐EcologyMax Planck Institute for Ornithology Radolfzell Germany
  51. Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and AgroecologyChinese Academy of Sciences Changchun People’s Republic of China
  52. Center for Conservation Biology, College of William and MaryVirginia Commonwealth University Williamsburg Virginia
  53. VulPro NPC Skeerpoort South Africa
  54. Ornitela UAB Vilnius Lithuania

Not provided.

Research Organization:
Biodiversity Research Institute, Portland, ME (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
DOE Contract Number:
EE0005362
OSTI ID:
1613297
Journal Information:
Global Ecology and Biogeography, Vol. 28, Issue 5; ISSN 1466-822X
Publisher:
Wiley
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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