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Satellite tracks tell a story.
Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2019 11:38 pm
by jimbob
One of my favourite papers from 2014.
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fu ... 14)00749-0
the satellite tracks in figure 1 is beautiful
Re: Satellite tracks tell a story.
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 4:03 am
by Squeak
That's a fascinating map. Thanks.
Re: Satellite tracks tell a story.
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 4:10 am
by Woodchopper
Yes, really interesting
Re: Satellite tracks tell a story.
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 7:52 pm
by Bird on a Fire
I was chatting with one of the pioneers of modern bird migration research, who said that studies should always aim to summarise their findings in a single, good map.
I think that fits the bill very nicely!
Cool results indeed. Structures like wind turbines seem to provide good habitat for marine life as well as functioning as de facto no-take zones (very hard to do most kinds of fishing within an offshore wind farm!). So the rise of this kind of generation could in fact be good news for quite a few kinds of marine life - though there's probably an equal and opposite reaction we're currently missing.
Re: Satellite tracks tell a story.
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 8:15 pm
by jimbob
Bird on a Fire wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2019 7:52 pm
I was chatting with one of the pioneers of modern bird migration research, who said that studies should always aim to summarise their findings in a single, good map.
I think that fits the bill very nicely!
Cool results indeed. Structures like wind turbines seem to provide good habitat for marine life as well as functioning as de facto no-take zones (very hard to do most kinds of fishing within an offshore wind farm!). So the rise of this kind of generation could in fact be good news for quite a few kinds of marine life - though there's probably an equal and opposite reaction we're currently missing.
Yup, I had been thinking that the no-take zone would be important.
My brother and his wife are ecologists, and Dad worked on farm management for wildlife - especially birds, so often talk about such stuff... although I don't even make it to conscious incompetence in any field of ecology.