Publications of the Research Group of Computational Ecology

Nourani, E.; Bohrer, G.; Becciu, P.; Bierregaard, R. O.; Duriez, O.; Figuerola, J.; Gangoso, L.; Giokas, S.; Higuchi, H.; Kassara, C. et al.; Kulikova, O.; Lecomte, N.; Monti, F.; Pokrovsky, I.; Sforzi, A.; Therrien, J. F.; Tsiopelas, N.; Vansteelant, W. M. G.; Viana, D. S.; Yamaguchi, N. M.; Wikelski, M.; Safi, K.: The interplay of wind and uplift facilitates over-water flight in facultative soaring birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288 (1958), 20211603 (2021)

O'Mara, M. T.; Amorim, F.; Scacco, M.; McCracken, G. F.; Safi, K.; Mata, V.; Tome, R.; Swartz, S.; Wikelski, M.; Beja, P. et al.; Rebelo, H.; Dechmann, D. K. N.: Bats use topography and nocturnal updrafts to fly high and fast. Current Biology 31 (6), pp. 1311 - 1316 (2021)

Sechaud, R.; Schalcher, K.; Machado, A. P.; Almasi, B.; Massa, C.; Safi, K.; Roulin, A.: Behaviour-specific habitat selection patterns of breeding barn owls. BMC Movement Ecology 9 (1), 18 (2021)

Smaers, J. B.; Rothman, R. S.; Hudson, D. R.; Balanoff, A. M.; Beatty, B.; Dechmann, D. K. N.; de Vries, D.; Dunn, J. C.; Fleagle, J. G.; Gilbert, C. C. et al.; Goswami, A.; Iwaniuk, A. N.; Jungers, W. L.; Kerney, M.; Ksepka, D. T.; Manger, P. R.; Mongle, C. S.; Rohlf, F. J.; Smith, N. A.; Soligo, C.; Weisbecker, V.; Safi, K.: The evolution of mammalian brain size. Science Advances 7 (18), eabe2101 (2021)

Williams, H. J.; Safi, K.: Certainty and integration of options in animal movement. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 36 (11), pp. 990 - 999 (2021)

Yusefi, G. H.; Safi, K.; Tarroso, P.; Brito, J. C.: The impacts of extreme climate change on mammals differ among functional groups at regional scale: The case of Iranian terrestrial mammals. Diversity and Distributions 27 (9), pp. 1634 - 1647 (2021)

Zein, B.; Long, J. A.; Safi, K.; Kölzsch, A.; Wikelski, M.; Kruckenberg, H.; Demšar, U.: Simulation experiment to test strategies of geomagnetic navigation during long-distance bird migration. BMC Movement Ecology 9, 46 (2021)

Nourani, E.; Vansteelant, W. M. G.; Byholm, P.; Safi, K.: Dynamics of the energy seascape can explain intra-specific variations in sea-crossing behaviour of soaring birds. Biology Letters 16 (1), 20190797 (2020)

Péron, G.; Calabrese, J. M.; Duriez, O.; Fleming, C. H.; García-Jiménez, R.; Johnston, A.; Lambertucci, S. A.; Safi, K.; Shepard, E. L. C.: The challenges of estimating the distribution of flight heights from telemetry or altimetry data. Animal Biotelemetry 8 (1), 5 (2020)

Schwalb-Willmann, J.; Remelgado, R.; Safi, K.; Wegmann, M.: moveVis: Animating movement trajectories in synchronicity with static or temporally dynamic environmental data in r. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 11 (5), pp. 664 - 669 (2020)

O'Mara, M. T.; Scharf, A. K.; Fahr, J.; Abedi-Lartey, M.; Wikelski, M.; Dechmann, D. K. N.; Safi, K.: Overall dynamic body acceleration in straw-colored fruit bats increases in headwinds but not with airspeed. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7, 200 (2019)

Smaers, J. B.; Mongle, C. S.; Safi, K.; Dechmann, D. K. N.: Allometry, evolution and development of neocortex size in mammals. Progress in Brain Research 250, pp. 83 - 107 (2019)

Yusefi, G. H.; Safi, K.; Brito, J. C.: Network- and distance-based methods in bioregionalization processes at regional scale: An application to the terrestrial mammals of Iran. Journal of Biogeography 46 (11), pp. 2433 - 2443 (2019)