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

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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, Florian; Taylor, Philip D.; Sjöberg, Sissel; Muheim, Rachel; Tsvey, Arseny; Mackenzie, Stuart A. & Schmaljohann, Heiko
  
• 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, Heiko & Eikenaar, Cas
  
• The limits of modifying migration speed to adjust to climate change. Nature Climate Change, Vol. 7. 2017, pp. 573–576.
  Schmaljohann, Heiko & Both, Christiaan
  
• 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, Florian; Eikenaar, Cas; Crysler, Zoe J.; Taylor, Philip D. & Schmaljohann, Heiko
  
• Proximate mechanisms affecting seasonal differences in migration speed of avian species. Scientific Reports, Vol. 8. 2018, Article number: 4106.
  Schmaljohann, Heiko
  
• 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, Heiko
  
• 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, Thomas; Buddemeier, Jonas; Bairlein, Franz & Schmaljohann, Heiko
  
• 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, Florian; Klinner, Thomas; Woodworth, Bradley K.; Eikenaar, Cas & Schmaljohann, Heiko