Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Publications of Kamran Safi

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Journal Article (96)

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Gumbs, R.; Gray, C. L.; Boehm, M.; Burfield, I. J.; Couchman, O. R.; Faith, D. P.; Forest, F.; Hoffmann, M.; Isaac, N. J. B.; Jetz, W. et al.; Mace, G. M.; Mooers, A. O.; Safi, K.; Scott, O.; Steel, M.; Tucker, C. M.; Pearse, W. D.; Owen, N. R.; Rosindell, J.: The EDGE2 protocol: Advancing the prioritisation of Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered species for practical conservation action. PLoS Biology 21 (2), e3001991 (2023)

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Longarini, A.; Duriez, O.; Shepard, E.; Safi, K.; Wikelski, M.; Scacco, M.: Effect of harness design for tag attachment on the flight performance of five soaring species. BMC Movement Ecology 11, 39 (2023)

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Morelle, K.; Barasona, J. A.; Bosch, J.; Heine, G.; Daim, A.; Arnold, J.; Bauch, T.; Kosowska, A.; Cadenas-Fernandez, E.; Aviles, M. M. et al.; Zuniga Dan; Wikelski, M.; Vizcaino-Sanchez, J. M.; Safi, K.: Accelerometer-based detection of African swine fever infection in wild boar. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 290 (2005), 20231396 (2023)

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Nourani, E.; Safi, K.; de Grissac, S.; Anderson, D. J.; Cole, N. C.; Fell, A.; Gremillet, D.; Lempidakis, E.; Lerma, M.; McKee, J. L. et al.; Pichegru, L.; Provost, P.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Ryan, P. G.; Santos, C. D.; Schoombie, S.; Tatayah, V.; Weimerskirch, H.; Wikelski, M.; Shepard, E. L. C.: Seabird morphology determines operational wind speeds, tolerable maxima, and responses to extremes. Current Biology 33 (6), pp. 1179 - 1184 (2023)

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Scacco, M.; Arrondo, E.; Donázar, J. A.; Flack, A.; Sánchez‑Zapata, J. A.; Duriez, O.; Wikelski, M.; Safi, K.: The species‑specificity of energy landscapes for soaring birds, and its consequences for transferring suitability models across species. Landscape Ecology 38 (1), pp. 239 - 252 (2023)

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Zhang, Y.; Klein, K.; Schreiber, F.; Safi, K.: Beyond the horizon: immersive developments for animal ecology research. Visual Computing for Industry Biomedicine and Art 6 (1), 11 (2023)

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Brønnvik, H.; Safi, K.; Vansteelant, W. M. G.; Byholm, P.; Nourani, E.: Experience does not change the importance of wind support for migratory route selection by a soaring bird. Royal Society Open Science 9 (12), 220746 (2022)

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Curk, T.; Kulikova, O.; Fufachev, I.; Wikelski, M.; Safi, K.; Pokrovsky, I.: Arctic migratory raptor selects nesting area during the previous breeding season. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10, 865482 (2022)

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Kays, R.; Davidson, S. C.; Berger, M.; Bohrer, G.; Fiedler, W.; Flack, A.; Hirt, J.; Hahn, C.; Gauggel, D.; Russell, B. et al.; Kölzsch, A.; Lohr, A.; Partecke, J.; Quetting, M.; Safi, K.; Scharf, A. K.; Schneider, G.; Lang, I.; Schaeuffelhut, F.; Landwehr, M.; Storhas, M.; van Schalkwyk, O. L.; Vinciguerra, C.; Weinzierl, R.; Wikelski, M.: The Movebank system for studying global animal movement and demography. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13 (3), pp. 419 - 431 (2022)

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Kölzsch, A.; Davidson, S. C.; Gauggel, D.; Hahn, C.; Hirt, J.; Kays, R.; Lang, I.; Lohr, A.; Russell, B.; Scharf, A. K. et al.; Schneider, G.; Vinciguerra, C. M.; Wikelski, M.; Safi, K.: MoveApps: a serverless no-code analysis platform for animal tracking data. BMC Movement Ecology 10 (1), 30 (2022)

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Morant, J.; Scacco, M.; Safi, K.; Gomez, J. M. A.; Alvarez, T.; Sanchez, A.; Phipps, W. L.; Alanis, I. C.; Garcia, J.; Prieta, J. et al.; Zuberogoitia, I.; Lopez-Lopez, P.: Environmental and social correlates, and energetic consequences of fitness maximisation on different migratory behaviours in a long-lived scavenger. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 76 (8), 111 (2022)

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Sechaud, R.; Schalcher, K.; Almasi, B.; Buhler, A.; Safi, K.; Romano, A.; Roulin, A.: Home range size and habitat quality affect breeding success but not parental investment in barn owl males. Scientific Reports 12 (1), 6516 (2022)

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Yusefi, G. H.; Brito, J. C.; Soofi, M.; Safi, K.: Hunting and persecution drive mammal declines in Iran. Scientific Reports 12 (1), 17743 (2022)

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Curk, T.; Scacco, M.; Safi, K.; Wikelski, M.; Fiedler, W.; Kemp, R.; Wolter, K.: Wing tags severely impair movement in African Cape Vultures. Animal Biotelemetry 9, 11 (2021)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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

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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)

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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)

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Curk, T.; Pokrovsky, I. G.; Lecomte, N.; Aarvak, T.; Burnham, K.; Dietz, A.; Franke, A.; Gauthier, G.; Jacobsen, K.-O.; Kidd, J. et al.; Lewis, S. B.; Øien, I. J.; Solheim, R.; Wiebe, K.; Wikelski, M.; Therrien, J.-F.; Safi, K.: Arctic avian predators synchronise their spring migration with the northern progression of snowmelt. Scientific Reports 10, 7220 (2020)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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Soultan, A.; Wikelski, M.; Safi, K.: Classifying biogeographic realms of the endemic fauna in the Afro‐Arabian region. Ecology and Evolution 10 (16), pp. 8669 - 8680 (2020)

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Zango, L.; Navarro-Herrero, L.; García-Vendrell, M.; Safi, K.; Gonzalez-Solís, J.: Niche partitioning and individual specialization among age, breeding status and sex classes in a long-lived seabird. Animal Behaviour 170, pp. 1 - 14 (2020)

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Aspillaga, E.; Safi, K.; Hereu, B.; Bartumeus, F.: Modelling the three‐dimensional space use of aquatic animals combining topography and Eulerian telemetry data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10 (9), pp. 1551 - 1557 (2019)

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Klein, K.; Sommer, B.; Nim, H. T.; Flack, A.; Safi, K.; Nagy, M.; Feyer, S. P.; Zhang, Y.; Rehberg, K.; Gluschkow, A. et al.; Quetting, M.; Fiedler, W.; Wikelski, M.; Schreiber, F.: Fly with the flock: Immersive solutions for animal movement visualization and analytics. Interface: Journal of the Royal Society 16 (153), 20180794 (2019)

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Kleyheeg, E.; Fiedler, W.; Safi, K.; Waldenström, J.; Wikelski, M.; van Toor, M. L.: A comprehensive model for the quantitative estimation of seed dispersal by migratory mallards. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7, 40 (2019)

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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)

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Remelgado, R.; Wegmann, M.; Safi, K.: RSMOVE—An R package to bridge remote sensing and movement ecology. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10 (8), pp. 1212 - 1221 (2019)

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Scacco, M.; Flack, A.; Duriez, O.; Wikelski, M.; Safi, K.: Static landscape features predict uplift locations for soaring birds across Europe. Royal Society Open Science 6 (1), 181440 (2019)

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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)

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Soultan, A.; Wikelski, M.; Safi, K.: Risk of biodiversity collapse under climate change in the Afro-Arabian region. Scientific Reports 9, 955 (2019)

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Yusefi, G. H.; Faizolahi, K.; Darvish, J.; Safi, K.; Brito, J. C.: The species diversity, distribution, and conservation status of the terrestrial mammals of Iran. Journal of Mammalogy 100 (1), pp. 55 - 71 (2019)

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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)

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Nourani, E.; Safi, K.; Yamaguchi, N. M.; Higuchi, H.: Raptor migration in an oceanic flyway: Wind and geography shape the migratory route of grey-faced buzzards in East Asia. Royal Society Open Science 5 (3), 171555 (2018)

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Oloo, F.; Safi, K.; Aryal, J.: Predicting migratory corridors of white storks, Ciconia ciconia, to enhance sustainable wind energy planning: A data-driven agent-based model. Sustainability 10 (5), 1470 (2018)

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Parlin, A. F.; Nardone, J. A.; Dougherty, J. K.; Rebein, M.; Safi, K.; Schaeffer, P. J.: Activity and movement of free-living box turtles are largely independent of ambient and thermal conditions. BMC Movement Ecology 6, 12 (2018)

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Remelgado, R.; Leutner, B.; Safi, K.; Sonnenschein, R.; Kuebert, C.; Wegmann, M.: Linking animal movement and remote sensing - mapping resource suitability from a remote sensing perspective. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation 4 (3), pp. 211 - 224 (2018)

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Scharf, A. K.; Belant, J. L.; Beyer Jr., D. E.; Wikelski, M.; Safi, K.: Habitat suitability does not capture the essence of animal-defined corridors. BMC Movement Ecology 6, 18 (2018)

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Tucker, M. A.; Böhning-Gaese, K.; Fagan, W. F.; Fryxell, J. M.; Moorter, B. V.; Alberts, S. C.; Ali, A. H.; Allen, A. M.; Attias, N.; Avgar, T. et al.; Bartlam-Brooks, H.; Bayarbaatar, B.; Belant, J. L.; Bertassoni, A.; Beyer, D.; Bidner, L.; van Beest, F. M.; Blake, S.; Blaum, N.; Bracis, C.; Brown, D.; de Bruyn, P. J. N.; Cagnacci, F.; Calabrese, J. M.; Camilo-Alves, C.; Chamaillé-Jammes, S.; Chiaradia, A.; Davidson, S. C.; Dennis, T.; DeStefano, S.; Diefenbach, D.; Douglas-Hamilton, I.; Fennessy, J.; Fichtel, C.; Fiedler, W.; Fischer, C.; Fischhoff, I.; Fleming, C. H.; Ford, A. T.; Fritz, S. A.; Gehr, B.; Goheen, J. R.; Gurarie, E.; Hebblewhite, M.; Heurich, M.; Hewison, A. J. M.; Hof, C.; Hurme, E.; Isbell, L. A.; Janssen, R.; Jeltsch, F.; Kaczensky, P.; Kane, A.; Kappeler, P. M.; Kauffman, M.; Kays, R.; Kimuyu, D.; Koch, F.; Kranstauber, B.; LaPoint, S. D.; Leimgruber, P.; Linnell, J. D. C.; López-López, P.; Markham, A. C.; Mattisson, J.; Medici, E. P.; Mellone, U.; Merrill, E.; de Mourão, G. M.; Morato, R. G.; Morellet, N.; Morrison, T. A.; Díaz-Muñoz, S. L.; Mysterud, A.; Nandintsetseg, D.; Nathan, R.; Niamir, A.; Odden, J.; O'Hara, R. B.; Oliveira-Santos, L. G. R.; Olson, K. A.; Patterson, B. D.; de Paula, R. C.; Pedrotti, L.; Reineking, B.; Rimmler, M.; Rogers, T. L.; Rolandsen, C. M.; Rosenberry, C. S.; Rubenstein, D. I.; Safi, K.; Saïd, S.; Sapir, N.; Sawyer, H.; Schmidt, N. M.; Selva, N.; Sergiel, A.; Shiilegdamba, E.; Silva, J. P.; Singh, N.; Solberg, E. J.; Spiegel, O.; Strand, O.; Sundaresan, S.; Ullmann, W.; Voigt, U.; Wall, J.; Wattles, D.; Wikelski, M.; Wilmers, C. C.; Wilson, J. W.; Wittemyer, G.; Zięba, F.; Zwijacz-Kozica, T.; Mueller, T.: Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements. Science 359 (6374), pp. 466 - 469 (2018)

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van Toor, M. L.; Kranstauber, B.; Newman, S. H.; Prosser, D. J.; Takekawa, J. Y.; Technitis, G.; Weibel, R.; Wikelski, M.; Safi, K.: Integrating animal movement with habitat suitability for estimating dynamic migratory connectivity. Landscape Ecology 33 (6), pp. 879 - 893 (2018)

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Dechmann, D. K. N.; Wikelski, M.; Ellis-Soto, D.; Safi, K.; O'Mara, M. T.: Determinants of spring migration departure decision in a bat. Biology Letters 13 (9), 20170395 (2017)

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Kranstauber, B.; Smolla, M.; Safi, K.: Similarity in spatial utilization distributions measured by the earth mover’s distance. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8 (2), pp. 155 - 160 (2017)

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Peron, G.; Fleming, C. H.; Duriez, O.; Fluhr, J.; Itty, C.; Lambertucci, S.; Safi, K.; Shepard, E. L. C.; Calabrese, J. M.: The energy landscape predicts flight height and wind turbine collision hazard in three species of large soaring raptor. Journal of Applied Ecology 54 (6), pp. 1895 - 1906 (2017)

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Soultan, A.; Safi, K.: The interplay of various sources of noise on reliability of species distribution models hinges on ecological specialisation. PLoS One 12 (11), e0187906 (2017)

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van Toor, M. L.; Arriero, E.; Holland, R. A.; Huttunen, M. J.; Juvaste, R.; Mueller, I.; Thorup, K.; Wikelski, M.; Safi, K.: Flexibility of habitat use in novel environments: Insights from a translocation experiment with lesser black-backed gulls. Royal Society Open Science 4 (1), 160164 (2017)

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Bengtsson, D.; Safi, K.; Avril, A.; Fiedler, W.; Wikelski, M.; Gunnarsson, G.; Elmberg, J.; Tolf, C.; Olsen, B.; Waldenström, J.: Does influenza A virus infection affect movement behaviour during stopover in its wild reservoir host? Royal Society Open Science 3 (2), 150633 (2016)

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