Innovative Visualizations Shed Light on Avian Nocturnal Migration.

ABSTRACT: Globally, billions of flying animals undergo seasonal migrations, many of which occur at night. The temporal and spatial scales at which migrations occur and our inability to directly observe these nocturnal movements makes monitoring and characterizing this critical period in migratory animals' life cycles difficult. Remote sensing, therefore, has played an important role in our understanding of large-scale nocturnal bird migrations. Weather surveillance radar networks in Europe and North America have great potential for long-term low-cost monitoring of bird migration at scales that have previously been impossible to achieve. Such long-term monitoring, however, poses a number of challenges for the ornithological and ecological communities: how does one take advantage of this vast data res

SUBMITTER: Shamoun-Baranes J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4996449 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature