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Overview

Heiko Schmaljohann is affiliated with Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in Germany. The research focus is predominantly within environmental science, with extensive contributions to avian ecology and behavior as well as related fields.

The main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science

The subfields researched cover:

  • Ecology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Developmental Biology
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Parasitology

The primary research topics encompass:

  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Bird parasitology and diseases

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored include:

  • Understanding the ecological and evolutionary function of stopover in migrating birds (2022), published in Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Stopover departure decisions in songbirds: do long-distance migrants depart earlier and more independently of weather conditions than medium-distance migrants? (2020), published in Movement Ecology
  • High individual repeatability of the migratory behaviour of a long-distance migratory seabird (2022), published in Movement Ecology
  • Sex, age, molt strategy, and migration distance explain the phenology of songbirds at a stopover along the East Asian flyway (2021), published in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • The urge to breed early: Similar responses to environmental conditions in short- and long-distance migrants during spring migration (2023), published in Ecology and Evolution

Frequent coauthors in this body of work include:

  • Vera Brust
  • Ommo Hüppop
  • Thiemo Karwinkel
  • Franz Bairlein
  • Cas Eikenaar

Preferred publication venues featuring multiple works by this researcher are:

  • Movement Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Best Publications

  • Cross-hemisphere migration of a 25 g songbird

    Franz Bairlein;D. Ryan Norris;Rolf Nagel;Marc Bulte

  • Multi‐generational long‐distance migration of insects: studying the painted lady butterfly in the Western Palaearctic

    Constantí Stefanescu;Ferran Páramo;Susanne Åkesson;Marta Alarcón

  • Songbird migration across the Sahara: the non-stop hypothesis rejected!

    Heiko Schmaljohann;Felix Liechti;Bruno Bruderer

  • Understanding the ecological and evolutionary function of stopover in migrating birds

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  • Body condition and wind support initiate the shift of migratory direction and timing of nocturnal departure in a songbird.

    Heiko Schmaljohann;Beat Naef-Daenzer

  • Quantification of bird migration by radar – a detection probability problem

    Heiko Schmaljohann;Felix Liechti;Erich Bächler;Thomas Steuri

  • Automatic identification of bird targets with radar via patterns produced by wing flapping

    Serge Zaugg;Gilbert Saporta;Emiel van Loon;Heiko Schmaljohann

  • Phenotypic response to environmental cues, orientation and migration costs in songbirds flying halfway around the world

    Heiko Schmaljohann;James W. Fox;Franz Bairlein

  • Trans-Sahara migrants select flight altitudes to minimize energy costs rather than water loss

    Heiko Schmaljohann;Felix Liechti;Bruno Bruderer

  • Optimal bird migration and predation risk: a field experiment with northern wheatears Oenanthe oenanthe

    Heiko Schmaljohann;Volker Dierschke

  • Differential timing of spring migration in northern wheatears Oenanthe oenanthe: hurried males or weak females?

    Volker Dierschke;Bettina Mendel;Heiko Schmaljohann

  • The limits of modifying migration speed to adjust to climate change

    Heiko Schmaljohann;Christiaan Both

  • Proximate mechanisms affecting seasonal differences in migration speed of avian species.

    Heiko Schmaljohann

  • How do energy stores and changes in these affect departure decisions by migratory birds? A critical view on stopover ecology studies and some future perspectives.

    Heiko Schmaljohann;Cas Eikenaar

  • Daily stopovers as optimal migration strategy in a long-distance migrating passerine : the Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe

    Julia Delingat;Volker Dierschke;Heiko Schmaljohann;Bettina Mendel

  • Proximate causes of avian protandry differ between subspecies with contrasting migration challenges

    Heiko Schmaljohann;Christoph Meier;Debora Arlt;Franz Bairlein

  • Tracking migration routes and the annual cycle of a trans-Sahara songbird migrant

    Heiko Schmaljohann;Martin Buchmann;James W. Fox;Franz Bairlein

  • Stopover optimization in a long-distance migrant: the role of fuel load and nocturnal take-off time in Alaskan northern wheatears (Oenanthe oenanthe)

    Heiko Schmaljohann;Fränzi Korner-Nievergelt;Beat Naef-Daenzer;Rolf Nagel

  • Nocturnal exploratory flights, departure time, and direction in a migratory songbird

    Heiko Schmaljohann;Philipp J. J. Becker;Hakan Karaardic;Felix Liechti

  • Stopover departure decisions in songbirds: do long-distance migrants depart earlier and more independently of weather conditions than medium-distance migrants?

    Florian Packmor;Thomas Klinner;Bradley K. Woodworth;Cas Eikenaar

  • Towards a conceptual framework for explaining variation in nocturnal departure time of songbird migrants

    Florian Müller;Philip D. Taylor;Sissel Sjöberg;Rachel Muheim

Frequent Co-Authors

Franz Bairlein
Franz Bairlein Max Planck Society
Felix Liechti
Felix Liechti Swiss Ornithological Institute
Beat Naef-Daenzer
Beat Naef-Daenzer Swiss Ornithological Institute
Philip D. Taylor
Philip D. Taylor Acadia University
Jason W. Chapman
Jason W. Chapman University of Exeter
Raphaël Arlettaz
Raphaël Arlettaz University of Bern
Keith A. Hobson
Keith A. Hobson University of Western Ontario
Jacob González-Solís
Jacob González-Solís University of Barcelona
Don R. Reynolds
Don R. Reynolds University of Greenwich
Susanne Åkesson
Susanne Åkesson Lund University

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