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Susanne Åkesson

Susanne Åkesson

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
61
Citations
13172
World Ranking
2778
National Ranking
48

Overview

Susanne Åkesson is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden and specializes primarily in Environmental Science. Their research focuses extensively on Ecology and its related subfields, including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics addressed in their work cover a range of ecological and behavioral studies in animals. These topics include Avian ecology and behavior, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Marine animal studies overview, and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior.

Susanne Åkesson has co-authored multiple papers with frequent collaborators such as Anders Hedenström, Gabriel Norevik, Giuseppe Bianco, Ulrik Lötberg, and Mihaela Ilieva.

The scientist has published extensively in a number of journals and venues. The most frequent publication venues include Movement Ecology, Ecology and Evolution, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Nature Communications, and the Journal of Experimental Biology. These venues reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their research within ecology and evolutionary biology.

Selected recent papers by Susanne Åkesson include:

  • Endogenous Programs and Flexibility in Bird Migration, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Biological Earth observation with animal sensors, 2022, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Migration direction in a songbird explained by two loci, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Paternal transmission of migration knowledge in a long-distance bird migrant, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Autumn migration direction of juvenile willow warblers (Phylloscopus t. trochilus and P. t. acredula) and their hybrids assessed by qPCR SNP genotyping, 2020, Movement Ecology

Best Publications

  • Long-distance migration: evolution and determinants

    Thomas Alerstam;Anders Hedenström;Susanne Åkesson

  • The implications of location accuracy for the interpretation of satellite-tracking data

    GC Hays;Susanne Åkesson;BJ Godley;P Luschi

  • How Migrants Get There: Migratory Performance and Orientation

    Susanne Åkesson;Anders Hedenström

  • The genetics of migration on the move.

    Miriam Liedvogel;Susanne Åkesson;Staffan Bensch

  • Wind selectivity of migratory flight departures in birds

    Susanne Åkesson;Anders Hedenström

  • Polarized light cues underlie compass calibration in migratory songbirds

    Rachel Muheim;Rachel Muheim;John B. Phillips;Susanne Åkesson

  • Grand challenges in migration biology

    Melissa S. Bowlin;Isabelle-Anne Bisson;Judy Shamoun-Baranes;Jonathan D. Reichard

  • Migration Routes and Strategies in a Highly Aerial Migrant, the Common Swift Apus apus, Revealed by Light-Level Geolocators.

    Susanne Åkesson;Raymond Klaassen;Jan Holmgren;James W. Fox

  • Assessing accuracy and utility of satellite-tracking data using Argos-linked Fastloc-GPS

    M. J. Witt;Susanne Åkesson;A. C. Broderick;M. S. Coyne

  • MORPHOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR VARIATION ACROSS A MIGRATORY DIVIDE IN WILLOW WARBLERS, PHYLLOSCOPUS TROCHILUS.

    Staffan Bensch;Tord Andersson;Susanne Åkesson

  • Stable isotopes examined across a migratory divide in Scandinavian willow warblers (Phylloscopus trochilus trochilus and Phylloscopus trochilus acredula) reflect their African winter quarters

    CP Chamberlain;Staffan Bensch;X Feng;Susanne Åkesson

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

    Constantí Stefanescu;Ferran Páramo;Susanne Åkesson;Marta Alarcón

  • Magnetic compass orientation in European robins is dependent on both wavelength and intensity of light

    Rachel Muheim;Johan Bäckman;Susanne Åkesson

  • Polarization patterns of thick clouds: overcast skies have distribution of the angle of polarization similar to that of clear skies

    Ramón Hegedüs;Susanne Åkesson;Gábor Horváth

  • Nocturnal autumn bird migration at Falsterbo, South Sweden

    Susanna Zehnder;Susanna Zehnder;Susanne Åkesson;Felix Liechti;Bruno Bruderer

  • Temporal and spatial variation of hematozoans in Scandinavian willow warblers.

    Staffan Bensch;Susanne Åkesson

  • Biological Earth observation with animal sensors.

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  • Bimodal orientation and the occurrence of temporary reverse bird migration during autumn in south Scandinavia

    Susanne Åkesson;Lennart Karlsson;Göran Walinder;Thomas Alerstam

  • Indirect effects of lemming cycles on sandpiper dynamics: 50 years of counts from southern Sweden

    Sven Blomqvist;Noél Holmgren;Susanne Åkesson;Anders Hedenström

  • The use of AFLP to find an informative SNP: genetic differences across a migratory divide in willow warblers

    Staffan Bensch;Susanne Åkesson;Darren E. Irwin

  • Genetic, morphological, and feather isotope variation of migratory willow warblers show gradual divergence in a ring.

    Staffan Bensch;Mats Grahn;Nils Müller

  • Flight initiation of nocturnal passerine migrants in relation to celestial orientation conditions at twilight

    Susanne Akesson;Thomas Alerstam;Anders Hedenstrom

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders Hedenström
Anders Hedenström Lund University
Staffan Bensch
Staffan Bensch Lund University
Graeme C. Hays
Graeme C. Hays Deakin University
Paolo Luschi
Paolo Luschi University of Pisa
Brendan J. Godley
Brendan J. Godley University of Exeter
Thomas Alerstam
Thomas Alerstam Lund University
Annette C. Broderick
Annette C. Broderick University of Exeter
Felix Liechti
Felix Liechti Swiss Ornithological Institute
Henri Weimerskirch
Henri Weimerskirch Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Lisa T. Ballance
Lisa T. Ballance Oregon State University

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