Integrating Concepts and Technologies to Advance the Study of Bird Migration

Authors

W. Douglas Robinson, Oregon State UniversityFollow
Melissa Bowlin, Lund UniversityFollow
Isabelle Bisson, Princeton University
Judy Shamoun-Barnes, University of Amsterdam
Kasper Thorup, University of CopenhagenFollow
Robert H. Diehl, University of Southern MississippiFollow
Thomas H. Kunz, Boston University
Sarah Mabey, Hiram CollegeFollow
David W. Winkler, Cornell UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1-2010

Department

Biological Sciences

School

Biological, Environmental, and Earth Sciences

Abstract

Recent technological innovation has opened new avenues in migration research - for instance, by allowing individual migratory animals to be followed over great distances and long periods of time, as well as by recording physiological information. Here, we focus on how technology - specifically applied to bird migration - has advanced our knowledge of migratory connectivity, and the behavior, demography, ecology, and physiology of migrants. Anticipating the invention of new and smaller tracking devices, in addition to the ways that technologies may be combined to measure and record the behavior of migratory animals, we also summarize major conceptual questions that can only be addressed once innovative, cutting-edge instrumentation becomes available.

Comments

Copyright by the Ecological Society of America

Publication Title

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volume

8

Issue

7

First Page

354

Last Page

361

Recommended Citation

Robinson, W. D., Bowlin, M., Bisson, I., Shamoun-Barnes, J., Thorup, K., Diehl, R. H., Kunz, T. H., Mabey, S., Winkler, D. W. (2010). Integrating Concepts and Technologies to Advance the Study of Bird Migration. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 8(7), 354-361.
Available at: https://aquila.usm.edu/fac_pubs/8374