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    Locust displacing winds in eastern Australia reassessed with observations from an insect monitoring radar

    Based on previous investigations, adult Australian plague locusts are believed to migrate on warm nights (with evening temperatures >25 °C), provided daytime flight is suppressed by surface winds greater than ...

    Zhenhua Hao, V. Alistair Drake, Leesa Sidhu… in International Journal of Biometeorology (2017)

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    Riders on the Wind: The Aeroecology of Insect Migrants

    Migratory flight close to the Earth’s surface (within the so-called flight boundary layer) occurs in some insects, but the vast majority of migrants ascend above this layer and harness the power of the wind fo...

    Don R. Reynolds, Jason W. Chapman, V. Alistair Drake in Aeroecology (2017)

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    Aeroecological Observation Methods

    Observation of animals flying in the atmosphere is the core empirical process of aeroecology. For species that are small, or that fly by night or at high altitudes, this presents a considerable challenge. Even...

    V. Alistair Drake, Bruno Bruderer in Aeroecology (2017)