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Shay Rotics

Tel-Aviv University
Verified email at tauex.tau.ac.il
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Costs of migratory decisions: a comparison across eight white stork populations

…, L Jerzak, H Azafzaf, C Feltrup-Azafzaf, S Rotics… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
Annual migratory movements can range from a few tens to thousands of kilometers, creating
unique energetic requirements for each specific species and journey. Even within the same …

The challenges of the first migration: movement and behaviour of juvenile vs. adult white storks with insights regarding juvenile mortality

S Rotics, M Kaatz, YS Resheff… - Journal of Animal …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Migration conveys an immense challenge, especially for juvenile birds coping with enduring
and risky journeys shortly after fledging. Accordingly, juveniles exhibit considerably lower …

Wintering in Europe instead of Africa enhances juvenile survival in a long-distance migrant

S Rotics, S Turjeman, M Kaatz, YS Resheff, D Zurell… - Animal Behaviour, 2017 - Elsevier
Increased human-induced environmental changes and global warming alter bird migration
timing and routes. Recently, many Holarctic species, including white storks, Ciconia ciconia, …

Early arrival at breeding grounds: Causes, costs and a trade‐off with overwintering latitude

S Rotics, M Kaatz, S Turjeman, D Zurell… - Journal of Animal …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Early arrival at breeding grounds is of prime importance for migrating birds as it is known to
enhance breeding success. Adults, males and higher quality individuals typically arrive …

[HTML][HTML] AcceleRater: a web application for supervised learning of behavioral modes from acceleration measurements

YS Resheff, S Rotics, R Harel, O Spiegel, R Nathan - Movement ecology, 2014 - Springer
Background The study of animal movement is experiencing rapid progress in recent years,
forcefully driven by technological advancement. Biologgers with Acceleration (ACC) …

Group size increases inequality in cooperative behaviour

S Rotics, T Clutton-Brock - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In cooperatively breeding species where rearing effort is shared among multiple group
members, increases in group size typically reduce average per capita contributions to offspring …

[HTML][HTML] Individual environmental niches in mobile organisms

BS Carlson, S Rotics, R Nathan, M Wikelski… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Individual variation is increasingly recognized as a central component of ecological processes,
but its role in structuring environmental niche associations remains largely unknown. …

Effect of artificial night lighting on temporally partitioned spiny mice

S Rotics, T Dayan, N Kronfeld-Schor - Journal of Mammalogy, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We studied the effect of ecological light pollution on a rocky desert community, focusing on
2 spiny mouse congeners, nocturnal Acomys cahirinus (common spiny mouse) and diurnal …

[HTML][HTML] Home range size and resource use of breeding and non-breeding white storks along a land use gradient

D Zurell, H Von Wehrden, S Rotics, M Kaatz… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Biotelemetry is increasingly used to study animal movement at high spatial and temporal
resolution and guide conservation and resource management. Yet, limited sample sizes and …

Early-life behaviour predicts first-year survival in a long-distance avian migrant

S Rotics, S Turjeman, M Kaatz… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Early-life conditions have critical, long-lasting effects on the fate of individuals, yet early-life
activity has rarely been linked to subsequent survival of animals in the wild. Using high-…