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Dmitry Kishkinev's Outputs (35)

Conservation‐focused mapping of avian migratory routes using a pan‐European automated telemetry network (2025)
Journal Article
Mitchell, L., Brust, V., Karwinkel, T., Åkesson, S., Kishkinev, D., Norevik, G., Szep, T., Hedenström, A., Lagerveld, S., Helm, B., & Schmaljohann, H. (2025). Conservation‐focused mapping of avian migratory routes using a pan‐European automated telemetry network. Conservation Biology, Article e70017. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70017

Accelerated biodiversity loss has destabilized functional links within and between ecosystems. Species that cross different ecosystems during migration between breeding and nonbreeding sites are particularly sensitive to global change because they ar... Read More about Conservation‐focused mapping of avian migratory routes using a pan‐European automated telemetry network.

Mapping migratory routes: Avian conservation-focused opportunities for a pan-European automated telemetry network (2024)
Journal Article
Mitchell, L., Brust, V., Karwinkel, T., Åkesson, S., Kishkinev, D., Norevik, G., Szep, T., Hedenström, A., Lagerveld, S., Helm, B., & Schmaljohann, H. (in press). Mapping migratory routes: Avian conservation-focused opportunities for a pan-European automated telemetry network. Conservation Biology,

Accelerated biodiversity loss during the Anthropocene has destabilised functional links within and between ecosystems. Migratory species that cross different ecosystems on their repeated journeys between breeding and non-breeding sites are particula... Read More about Mapping migratory routes: Avian conservation-focused opportunities for a pan-European automated telemetry network.

Migratory birds can extract positional information from magnetic inclination and magnetic declination alone (2024)
Journal Article
Packmor, F., Kishkinev, D., Zechmeister, T., Mouritsen, H., & Holland, R. A. (2024). Migratory birds can extract positional information from magnetic inclination and magnetic declination alone. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291(2034), https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.1363

Migratory birds are able to navigate over great distances with remarkable accuracy. The mechanism they use to achieve this feat is thought to involve two distinct steps: locating their position (the “map”) and heading towards the direction determi... Read More about Migratory birds can extract positional information from magnetic inclination and magnetic declination alone.

Empowering rural communities for effective larval source management: A small-scale field evaluation of a community-led larviciding approach to control malaria in south-eastern Tanzania (2024)
Journal Article
Mapua, S. A., Limwagu, A. J., Kishkinev, D., Kifungo, K., Nambunga, I. H., Mziray, S., John, G., Mtiro, W., Ukio, K., Lezaun, J., Tripet, F., & Okumu, F. O. (2024). Empowering rural communities for effective larval source management: A small-scale field evaluation of a community-led larviciding approach to control malaria in south-eastern Tanzania. Parasite Epidemiology and Control, 27, Article e00382. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parepi.2024.e00382

Introduction
Larval source management, particularly larviciding, is mainly implemented in urban settings to control malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases. In Tanzania, the government has recently expanded larviciding to rural settings across the... Read More about Empowering rural communities for effective larval source management: A small-scale field evaluation of a community-led larviciding approach to control malaria in south-eastern Tanzania.

Circadian clock period length is not consistently linked to chronotype in a wild songbird (2024)
Journal Article
Tomotani, B., Strauß, A., Kishkinev, D., van de Haar, H., & Helm, B. (2024). Circadian clock period length is not consistently linked to chronotype in a wild songbird. European Journal of Neuroscience, https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.16535

Circadian clock properties vary between individuals and relate to variation in entrained timing in captivity. How this variation translates into behavioural differences in natural settings, however, is poorly understood. Here we tested in great tits... Read More about Circadian clock period length is not consistently linked to chronotype in a wild songbird.

Scanning the skies for migrants: Conservation-focused opportunities for a pan-European automated telemetry network (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
Mitchell, L., Brust, V., Karwinkel, T., Åkesson, S., Kishkinev, D., Norevik, G., Szep, T., Hedenström, A., Lagerveld, S., Helm, B., & Schmaljohann, H. Scanning the skies for migrants: Conservation-focused opportunities for a pan-European automated telemetry network

Accelerated biodiversity loss during the Anthropocene has destabilised functional links within and between ecosystems. Migratory species that cross different ecosystems on their repeated journeys between breeding and non-breeding sites are particular... Read More about Scanning the skies for migrants: Conservation-focused opportunities for a pan-European automated telemetry network.

A magnet attached to the forehead disrupts magnetic compass orientation in a migratory songbird. (2021)
Journal Article
Packmor, F., Kishkinev, D., Bittermann, F., Kofler, B., Machowetz, C., Zechmeister, T., Zawadzki, L. C., Guilford, T., & Holland, R. A. (2021). A magnet attached to the forehead disrupts magnetic compass orientation in a migratory songbird. Journal of Experimental Biology, https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.243337

For studies on magnetic compass orientation and navigation performance in small bird species, controlled experiments with orientation cages inside an electromagnetic coil system are the most prominent methodological paradigm. These are, however, not... Read More about A magnet attached to the forehead disrupts magnetic compass orientation in a migratory songbird..

Repeated training of homing pigeons reveals age dependent idiosyncrasy and visual landmark use. (2021)
Journal Article
Griffiths, C., Schiffner, I., Price, E., Charnell-Hughes, M., Kishkinev, D., & Holland, R. A. (2021). Repeated training of homing pigeons reveals age dependent idiosyncrasy and visual landmark use. Animal Behaviour, 159-170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.05.004

Recent research into the navigational strategies of homing pigeons (Columba livia) inthe familiar area has highlighted the phenomenon of route fidelity – birds formingidiosyncratic flight paths to which they are loyal over multiple releases from the... Read More about Repeated training of homing pigeons reveals age dependent idiosyncrasy and visual landmark use..

Navigation by extrapolation of geomagnetic cues in a migratory songbird (2021)
Journal Article
Kishkinev, D., Packmor, F., Zechmeister, T., Winkler, H., Chernetsov, N., Mouritsen, H., & Holland, R. A. (2021). Navigation by extrapolation of geomagnetic cues in a migratory songbird. Current Biology, R330-R332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.051

Displacement experiments have demonstrated that experienced migratory birds translocated thousands of kilometers away from their migratory corridor to unfamiliar areas can orient towards and ultimately reach their intended destinations. This implies... Read More about Navigation by extrapolation of geomagnetic cues in a migratory songbird.

Effects of blood parasite infections on spatiotemporal migration patterns and activity budgets in a long-distance migratory passerine (2020)
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Emmenegger, T., Bensch, S., Hahn, S., Kishkinev, D., Procházka, P., Zehtindjiev, P., & Bauer, S. (2020). Effects of blood parasite infections on spatiotemporal migration patterns and activity budgets in a long-distance migratory passerine. Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7030

How blood parasite infections influence the migration of hosts remains a lively debated issue as past studies found negative, positive or no response to infections. This particularly applies to small birds, for which monitoring of detailed migration... Read More about Effects of blood parasite infections on spatiotemporal migration patterns and activity budgets in a long-distance migratory passerine.

Anosmic migrating songbirds demonstrate a compensatory response following long-distance translocation: a radio-tracking study (2019)
Journal Article
Kishkinev, D., Anashina, A., Ishchenko, I., & Holland, R. A. (2019). Anosmic migrating songbirds demonstrate a compensatory response following long-distance translocation: a radio-tracking study. Journal of Ornithology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-019-01698-z

Several studies have shown that experienced night-migratory songbirds can determine their position, but it has remained a mystery which cues and sensory mechanisms they use, in particular, those used to determine longitude (east–west position). One p... Read More about Anosmic migrating songbirds demonstrate a compensatory response following long-distance translocation: a radio-tracking study.

Weak effects of geolocators on small birds: A meta-analysis controlled for phylogeny and publication bias. (2019)
Journal Article
Brlík, V., Koleček, J., Burgess, M., Hahn, S., Humple, D., Krist, M., Ouwehand, J., Weiser, E. L., Adamík, P., Alves, J. A., Arlt, D., Barišić, S., Becker, D., Belda, E. J., Beran, V., Both, C., Bravo, S. P., Briedis, M., Chutný, B., Ćiković, D., …Procházka, P. (2019). Weak effects of geolocators on small birds: A meta-analysis controlled for phylogeny and publication bias. Journal of Animal Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12962

Currently, the deployment of tracking devices is one of the most frequently used approaches to study movement ecology of birds. Recent miniaturization of light-level geolocators enabled studying small bird species whose migratory patterns were widely... Read More about Weak effects of geolocators on small birds: A meta-analysis controlled for phylogeny and publication bias..

Evidence for a southward autumn migration of nocturnal noctuid moths in central Europe. (2018)
Journal Article
Dreyer, D., el Jundi, B., Kishkinev, D., Suchentrunk, C., Campostrini, L., Frost, B. J., Zechmeister, T., & Warrant, E. J. (2018). Evidence for a southward autumn migration of nocturnal noctuid moths in central Europe. Journal of Experimental Biology, https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.179218

Insect migrations are spectacular natural events and resemble a remarkable relocation of biomass between two locations in space. Unlike the well-known migrations of daytime flying butterflies, such as the painted lady (Vanessa cardui) or the monarch... Read More about Evidence for a southward autumn migration of nocturnal noctuid moths in central Europe..

Interrupted breeding in a songbird migrant triggers development of nocturnal locomotor activity. (2018)
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Mukhin, A., Kobylkov, D., Kishkinev, D., & Grinkevich, V. (2018). Interrupted breeding in a songbird migrant triggers development of nocturnal locomotor activity

Long-distance avian migrants, e.g. Eurasian reed warblers (Acrocephalus scirpaceus), can precisely schedule events of their annual cycle. However, the proximate mechanisms controlling annual cycle and their interplay with environmental factors are po... Read More about Interrupted breeding in a songbird migrant triggers development of nocturnal locomotor activity..

Migratory Eurasian Reed Warblers Can Use Magnetic Declination to Solve the Longitude Problem. (2017)
Journal Article
Chernetsov, N., Pakhomov, A., Kobylkov, D., Kishkinev, D., Holland, R. A., & Mouritsen, H. (2017). Migratory Eurasian Reed Warblers Can Use Magnetic Declination to Solve the Longitude Problem. Current Biology, 2647 - 2651.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.07.024

The longitude problem (determining east-west position) is a classical problem in human sea navigation. Prior to the use of GPS satellites, extraordinarily accurate clocks measuring the difference between local time and a fixed reference (e.g., GMT) [... Read More about Migratory Eurasian Reed Warblers Can Use Magnetic Declination to Solve the Longitude Problem..

Experienced migratory songbirds do not display goal-ward orientation after release following a cross-continental displacement: an automated telemetry study. (2016)
Journal Article
Kishkinev, D., Heyers, D., Woodworth, B. K., Mitchell, G. W., Hobson, K. A., & Ryan Norris, D. (2016). Experienced migratory songbirds do not display goal-ward orientation after release following a cross-continental displacement: an automated telemetry study. Scientific reports, https://doi.org/10.1038/srep37326

The ability to navigate implies that animals have the capability to compensate for geographical displacement and return to their initial goal or target. Although some species are capable of adjusting their direction after displacement, the environmen... Read More about Experienced migratory songbirds do not display goal-ward orientation after release following a cross-continental displacement: an automated telemetry study..