OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Movement Ecology is 8. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Energy supply during nocturnal endurance flight of migrant birds: effect of energy stores and flight behaviour	42
Spatial and temporal predictability drive foraging movements of coastal birds	38
Deterministic, random, or in between? Inferring the randomness level of wildlife movements	31
Simulation experiment to test strategies of geomagnetic navigation during long-distance bird migration	30
Migration distance affects how closely Eurasian wigeons follow spring phenology during migration	30
Categorising cheetah behaviour using tri-axial accelerometer data loggers: a comparison of model resolution and data logger performance	24
Roads constrain movement across behavioural processes in a partially migratory ungulate	22
Increasingly detailed insights in animal behaviours using continuous on-board processing of accelerometer data	22
African wild dog movements show contrasting responses to long and short term risk of encountering lions: analysis using dynamic Brownian bridge movement models	22
Community structure of the solitary giant pandas is maintained by indirect social connections	21
Inclement weather forces stopovers and prevents migratory progress for obligate soaring migrants	20
A partial migrant relies upon a range-wide cue set but uses population-specific weighting for migratory timing	18
Timing is critical: consequences of asynchronous migration for the performance and destination of a long-distance migrant	18
MoveApps: a serverless no-code analysis platform for animal tracking data	17
A 30,000-km journey by Apus apus pekinensis tracks arid lands between northern China and south-western Africa	17
Influence of prey availability on habitat selection during the non-breeding period in a resident bird of prey	17
Central-place foraging poses variable constraints year-round in a neotropical migrant	17
The oxidative balance and stopover departure decisions in a medium- and a long-distance migrant	16
Using pseudo-absence models to test for environmental selection in marine movement ecology: the importance of sample size and selection strength	15
Multispecies fish tracking across newly created shallow and deep habitats in a forward-restored lake	15
Track and dive-based movement metrics do not predict the number of prey encountered by a marine predator	15
Divergent migration routes reveal contrasting energy-minimization strategies to deal with differing resource predictability	15
Autumn migration of the migrant hawker (Aeshna mixta) at the Baltic coast	15
A novel method for identifying fine-scale bottom-use in a benthic-foraging pinniped	14
Individuals of a group-living shorebird show smaller home range overlap when food availability is low	14

Animal behaviour on the move: the use of auxiliary information and semi-supervision to improve behavioural inferences from Hidden Markov Models applied to GPS tracking datasets	14
Comparison of triploid and diploid rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) fine-scale movement, migration and catchability in lowland lakes of western Washington	13
Seasonal migrations of the European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) in UK and surrounding waters	12
Seasonal habitat use and diel vertical migration in female spurdog in Nordic waters	12
Density-dependent distributions of hosts and parasitoids resulting from density-independent dispersal rules: implications for host–parasitoid interactions and population dynamics	12
Unveiling the roles of temporal periodicity, the spatial environment and behavioural modes in terrestrial animal movement	12
The statistical building blocks of animal movement simulations	12
Gauge-and-compass migration: inherited magnetic headings and signposts can adapt to changing geomagnetic landscapes	12
Clinging to the top: natal dispersal tracks climate gradient in a trailing-edge population of a migratory songbird	12
Movement ecology of an endangered mesopredator in a mining landscape	12
Migratory movements of bats are shaped by barrier effects, sex-biased timing and the adaptive use of winds	12
Factors modulating home range and resource use: a case study with Canarian houbara bustards	11
Analyzing tiger interaction and home range shifts using a time-geographic approach	11
Migratory strategies across an ecological barrier: is the answer blowing in the wind?	11
Seasonal coastal residency and large-scale migration of two grey mullet species in temperate European waters	11
Linking fine-scale behaviour to the hydraulic environment shows behavioural responses in riverine fish	11
Identifying signals of memory from observations of animal movements	11
Correction: Influence of prey availability on habitat selection during the non-breeding period in a resident bird of prey	10
Correction: Combining accelerometry with allometry for estimating daily energy expenditure in joules when in-lab calibration is unavailable	10
Birds of three worlds: moult migration to high Arctic expands a boreal-temperate flyway to a third biome	10
Tricolored bats at a southern range edge exhibit partial migration northward in autumn	10
How to treat mixed behavior segments in supervised machine learning of behavioural modes from inertial measurement data	10
The timing and spatial distribution of mother–offspring interactions in an obligate hider	10
Modeling the movement of Oecophylla smaragdina on short-length scales in an unfamiliar environment	10
Movement patterns of a small-bodied minnow suggest nomadism in a fragmented, desert river	10
Ponds as experimental arenas for studying animal movement: current research and future prospects	10
Correction to: Changes in selection of resources with reproductive state in a montane ungulate	10
Correction: The Yellow-browed Warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus) as a model to understand vagrancy and its potential for the evolution of new migration routes	10
Towards transient space-use dynamics: re-envisioning models of utilization distribution and their applications	10
The comparison of dispersal rate between invasive and native species varied by plant life form and functional traits	10
High individual repeatability of the migratory behaviour of a long-distance migratory seabird	9
What has biotelemetry ever done for avian translocations?	9
Individual variation in the habitat selection of upstream migrating fish near a barrier	9
Location of capture sufficiently characterises lifetime growth trajectories in a highly mobile fish	9
Effects of temperature experienced across life stages on morphology and flight behavior of painted lady butterflies (Vanessa cardui)	9
Consequences of migratory distance, habitat distribution and season on the migratory process in a short distance migratory shorebird population	9
The spatial consistency and repeatability of migratory flight routes and stationary sites of individual European nightjars based on multiannual GPS tracks	9
Weather-dependent changes in habitat use by Alpine chamois	9
Correction: Home sweet home: spatiotemporal distribution and site fidelity of the reef manta ray (Mobula alfredi) in Dungonab Bay, Sudan	8
Natal colony influences age-specific movement patterns of the Yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis)	8
Activity patterns throughout the annual cycle in a long-distance migratory songbird, the red-backed shrike Lanius collurio	8
North American avian species that migrate in flocks show greater long-term non-breeding range shift rates	8
Agricultural habitat use and selection by a sedentary bird over its annual life cycle in a crop-depredation context	8
No “carry-over” effects of tracking devices on return rate and parameters determining reproductive success in once and repeatedly tagged common swifts (Apus apus), a long-distance migratory bird	8
Drivers of polar bear behavior and the possible effects of prey availability on foraging strategy	8
Songbirds initiate migratory flights synchronously relative to civil dusk	8
Movement and dispersal of a habitat specialist in human-dominated landscapes: a case study of the red panda	8
The influence of thermal and hypoxia induced habitat compression on walleye (Sander vitreus) movements in a temperate lake	8
The role of wind in controlling the connectivity of blue mussels (Mytilus edulis L.) populations	8
Sensitivity of migratory connectivity estimates to spatial sampling design	8

Primed and cued: long-term acoustic telemetry links interannual and seasonal variations in freshwater flows to the spawning migrations of Common Snook in the Florida Everglades	8
Predicting movement speed of beetles from body size and temperature	8
The spatial and temporal exploitation of anthropogenic food sources by common ravens (Corvus corax) in the Alps	8
Individual-level patterns of resource selection do not predict hotspots of contact	8
Holling meets habitat selection: functional response of large herbivores revisited	8