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Thomas Alerstam

Thomas Alerstam

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Ecology and Evolution

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77
Citations
19625
World Ranking
969
National Ranking
16

Overview

Thomas Alerstam is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden and conducts research primarily within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Genetics.

The scientist's research topics focus on various aspects of avian ecology and behavior, species distribution and climate change, animal behavior and reproduction, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, as well as high altitude and hypoxia, plant and animal studies, and rangeland and wildlife management.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Thomas Alerstam include:

  • Extreme altitudes during diurnal flights in a nocturnal songbird migrant, 2021, Science
  • Extreme altitude changes between night and day during marathon flights of great snipes, 2021, Current Biology
  • Remarkably similar migration patterns between different red-backed shrike populations suggest that migration rather than breeding area phenology determines the annual cycle, 2020, Journal of Avian Biology
  • Individual and sex-related patterns of prolonged flights during both day and night by great reed warblers crossing the Mediterranean Sea and Sahara Desert, 2020, Journal of Avian Biology
  • Activity patterns throughout the annual cycle in a long-distance migratory songbird, the red-backed shrike Lanius collurio, 2022, Movement Ecology

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Thomas Alerstam include:

  • Sissel Sjöberg
  • Johan Bäckman
  • Arne Andersson
  • Kasper Thorup
  • Anders P. Tøttrup

The researcher has published often in the Journal of Avian Biology, with additional frequent publications in Current Biology, Science, Movement Ecology, and Wader Study.

Best Publications

  • Long-distance migration: evolution and determinants

    Thomas Alerstam;Anders Hedenström;Susanne Åkesson

  • Optimal Bird Migration: The Relative Importance of Time, Energy, and Safety

    Thomas Alerstam;Åke Lindström

  • THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIRD MIGRATION THEORY

    Thomas Alerstam;Anders Hedenstrom

  • When and where does mortality occur in migratory birds? Direct evidence from long- term satellite tracking of raptors

    Raymond H. G. Klaassen;Raymond H. G. Klaassen;Mikael Hake;Roine Strandberg;Ben J. Koks

  • OPTIMUM FUEL LOADS IN MIGRATORY BIRDS: DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN TIME AND ENERGY MINIMIZATION

    Anders Hedenström;Thomas Alerstam

  • Differences in Speed and Duration of Bird Migration between Spring and Autumn.

    Cecilia Nilsson;Raymond H. G. Klaassen;Thomas Alerstam

  • Optimal bird migration revisited

    Thomas Alerstam

  • Detours in Bird Migration

    Thomas Alerstam

  • Flight speeds among bird species: allometric and phylogenetic effects.

    Thomas Alerstam;Mikael Rosén;Johan Bäckman;Per G. P Ericson

  • OPTIMAL FLIGHT SPEED OF BIRDS

    Anders Hedenstrom;Thomas Alerstam

  • Animal Orientation Strategies for Movement in Flows

    Jason W. Chapman;Raymond H.G. Klaassen;V. Alistair Drake;V. Alistair Drake;Sabrina Fossette

  • Wind as Selective Agent in Bird Migration

    Thomas Alerstam

  • Optimal fat loads in migrating birds: a test of the time-minimization hypothesis

    Ake Lindstrom;Thomas Alerstam

  • Optimal fat loads and long‐distance flights by migrating Knots Calidris canutus, Sanderlings C. alba and Turnstones Arenaria interpres

    Gudmundur A. Gudmundsson;Åke Lindström;Thomas Alerstam

  • The annual cycle of a trans-equatorial Eurasian–African passerine migrant: different spatio-temporal strategies for autumn and spring migration

    Anders P. Tøttrup;Raymond H. G. Klaassen;Roine Strandberg;Kasper Thorup

  • Age‐dependent migration strategy in honey buzzards Pernis apivorus tracked by satellite

    Mikael Hake;Nils Kjellén;Thomas Alerstam

  • Bird orientation: compensation for wind drift in migrating raptors is age dependent

    Kasper Thorup;Thomas Alerstam;Mikael Hake;Nils Kjellén

  • Individuality in bird migration: routes and timing

    Yannis Vardanis;Raymond H. G. Klaassen;Roine Strandberg;Thomas Alerstam

  • Temporal and spatial patterns of repeated migratory journeys by ospreys

    Thomas Alerstam;Mikael Hake;Nils Kjellén

  • Conflicting evidence about long-distance animal navigation.

    Thomas Alerstam

Frequent Co-Authors

Raymond H. G. Klaassen
Raymond H. G. Klaassen University of Groningen
Anders Hedenström
Anders Hedenström Lund University
Kasper Thorup
Kasper Thorup University of Copenhagen
Susanne Åkesson
Susanne Åkesson Lund University
Åke Lindström
Åke Lindström Lund University
Don R. Reynolds
Don R. Reynolds University of Greenwich
Jason W. Chapman
Jason W. Chapman University of Exeter
Dennis Hasselquist
Dennis Hasselquist Lund University
Bengt Hansson
Bengt Hansson Lund University
Arne Hegemann
Arne Hegemann Lund University

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