Airflow modelling predicts seabird breeding habitat across islands

• Main Authors: Lempidakis, Emmanouil, Ross, Andrew, Börger, Luca, Shepard, Emily
• Format: Software
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: wind; species' spatial distribution; computational fluid dynamics; habitat use; seabird; Fid; Uria aalge; uria
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5557126; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5557126

Wind is fundamentally related to shelter and flight performance: two factors that are critical for birds at their nest sites. Despite this, airflows have never been fully integrated into models of breeding habitat selection, even for well-studied seabirds. Here we use computational fluid dynamics to...