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List of works by Frank A La Sorte

A Research Agenda for Urban Biodiversity in the Global Extinction Crisis

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A global analysis of the impacts of urbanization on bird and plant diversity reveals key anthropogenic drivers

scientific article published on 12 February 2014

A multiscale assessment of the diversity of New Zealand’s nursery trees

scientific article published on 06 January 2022

Assessing the combined threats of artificial light at night and air pollution for the world’s nocturnally migrating birds

scientific article published on 22 February 2022

Beta diversity of urban floras among European and non-European cities

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Bird strikes at commercial airports explained by citizen science and weather radar data

scientific article published in 2021

British plants as aliens in New Zealand cities: residence time moderates their impact on the beta diversity of urban floras

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Can Observation Skills of Citizen Scientists Be Estimated Using Species Accumulation Curves?

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Citizen-science data provides new insight into annual and seasonal variation in migration patterns

article published in 2015

Comparison of Methods for Estimating Bird Abundance and Trends From Historical Count Data

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Compositional similarity and the distribution of geographical range size for assemblages of native and non-native species in urban floras

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Continental‐scale biomass redistribution by migratory birds in response to seasonal variation in productivity

scientific article published in 2022

Convergence of broad-scale migration strategies in terrestrial birds

scientific article published in January 2016

Crowdsourcing Meets Ecology: Hemisphere-Wide Spatiotemporal Species Distribution Models

scientific article published on 19 June 2014

Data coverage, biases, and trends in a global citizen‐science resource for monitoring avian diversity

scientific article published on 3 June 2024

Decoupling of bird migration from the changing phenology of spring green-up

scientific article published on 4 March 2024

Disparities between observed and predicted impacts of climate change on winter bird assemblages

scientific article published on 11 June 2009

Distance decay of similarity among European urban floras: the impact of anthropogenic activities on β diversity

scientific article published in 2008

Documenting stewardship responsibilities across the annual cycle for birds on U.S. public lands

scientific article published on January 2015

Estimating the movements of terrestrial animal populations using broad-scale occurrence data

scientific article published on 11 December 2021

Exposure to noise pollution across North American passerines supports the noise filter hypothesis

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Extra-regional residence time as a correlate of plant invasiveness: European archaeophytes in North America.

scientific article published in September 2009

Fruiting Season Length Restricts Global Distribution of Female-Only Parental Care in Frugivorous Passerine Birds

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Geographical associations with anthropogenic noise pollution for North American breeding birds

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Geographical constraints are stronger than invasion patterns for European urban floras

scientific article published on 22 January 2014

Global Patterns and Drivers of Urban Bird Diversity

Global change and the distributional dynamics of migratory bird populations wintering in Central America

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Hierarchical filters determine community assembly of urban species pools.

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Higher Nest Predation Favors Rapid Fledging at the Cost of Plumage Quality in Nestling Birds

scientific article published on 27 March 2019

Holding steady: Little change in intensity or timing of bird migration over the Gulf of Mexico

scientific article published on 08 January 2019

Migration timing and its determinants for nocturnal migratory birds during autumn migration

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Navigating north: how body mass and winds shape avian flight behaviours across a North American migratory flyway

scientific article published on 07 May 2018

Novel seasonal land cover associations for eastern North American forest birds identified through dynamic species distribution modelling

scientific article published on 18 February 2016

Opportunities and challenges for big data ornithology

scientific article published in 2018

Phenological synchronization of seasonal bird migration with vegetation greenness across dietary guilds

scientific article published on 26 October 2020

Phenotypic population divergence in terrestrial vertebrates at macro scales

scientific article published on 25 August 2009

Phyloecology of urban alien floras

scientific article published in 2009

Phylogenetic beta diversity of native and alien species in European urban floras

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Poleward shifts in winter ranges of North American birds

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Population-level scaling of avian migration speed with body size and migration distance for powered fliers

scientific article published on August 2013

Projected changes in prevailing winds for transatlantic migratory birds under global warming

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Projected changes in wind assistance under climate change for nocturnally migrating bird populations

scientific article published on 09 December 2018

Projected range contractions of montane biodiversity under global warming

scientific article published on 9 June 2010

Protected area planning to conserve biodiversity in an uncertain future

scientific article published in 2023

Range-wide latitudinal and elevational temperature gradients for the world's terrestrial birds: implications under global climate change

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Seasonal abundance and survival of North America's migratory avifauna determined by weather radar

scientific article published on 17 September 2018

Seasonal associations with light pollution trends for nocturnally migrating bird populations

scientific article published on 29 March 2022

Seasonal associations with novel climates for North American migratory bird populations

scientific article published on 04 April 2018

Seasonal associations with urban light pollution for nocturnally migrating bird populations

scientific article published on 11 July 2017

Seasonal changes in the altitudinal distribution of nocturnally migrating birds during autumn migration

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Seasonal variation in the effects of artificial light at night on the occurrence of nocturnally migrating birds in urban areas

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

Species traits drive responses of forest birds to agriculturally‐modified habitats throughout the annual cycle

scientific article published in 2023

Spring phenology of ecological productivity contributes to the use of looped migration strategies by birds

scientific article published on 10 September 2014

Survey completeness of a global citizen-science database of bird occurrence

scientific article from 2020

Taking a 'Big Data' approach to data quality in a citizen science project

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The compositional similarity of urban forests among the world's cities is scale dependent

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The diversity and abundance of North American bird assemblages fail to track changing productivity

scientific article published on April 2015

The eBird enterprise: An integrated approach to development and application of citizen science

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The implications of mid-latitude climate extremes for North American migratory bird populations

scientific article published in 2016

The island biogeography of the eBird citizen‐science programme

scientific article published in 2020

The phylogenetic and functional diversity of regional breeding bird assemblages is reduced and constricted through urbanization

scientific article published on 15 March 2018

The role of artificial light at night and road density in predicting the seasonal occurrence of nocturnally migrating birds

scientific article published in 2022

The role of atmospheric conditions in the seasonal dynamics of North American migration flyways

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The role of non-native plants and vertebrates in defining patterns of compositional dissimilarity within and across continents

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The role of urban and agricultural areas during avian migration: an assessment of within-year temporal turnover

scientific article published in 2014

Time of emergence of novel climates for North American migratory bird populations

scientific article published in 2019

Tracking of climatic niche boundaries under recent climate change

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Urban biodiversity: State of the science and future directions

scientific article published on 21 February 2022

Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial animal taxa worldwide

scientific article published in 2023

Warmer Summers and Drier Winters Correlate with More Winter Vagrant Purple Gallinules (Porphyrio martinicus) in the North Atlantic Region

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