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Flight Initiation Thresholds

Flight Initiation Thresholds is a behavioral ecology construct that denotes the minimum distance between a potential threat and an organism at which the organism initiates flight, distinguishing it from other escape response measures by specifying the critical proximity triggering immediate evasive locomotion.

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Flight Initiation Distance

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Optimal flight initiation distance

William E. Cooper, William G. Frederick · Journal of Theoretical Biology · 2006 · 390 citations

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Testing a key assumption of wildlife buffer zones: is flight initiation distance a species-specific trait?

Daniel T. Blumstein, Laura L. Anthony, Robert Harcourt et al. · Biological Conservation · 2002 · 234 citations

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The influence of distance to refuge on flight initiation distance in the gray squirrel (<i>Sciurus carolinensis</i>)

Lawrence M. Dill, Robert Houtman · Canadian Journal of Zoology · 1989 · 171 citations

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Body size and reserve protection affect flight initiation distance in parrotfishes

Kiyoko M. Gotanda, Katrine Turgeon, Donald L. Kramer · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology · 2009 · 148 citations

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The role of temperature and nutritional status in flight initiation by Triatoma infestans

M. J. Lehane, P. K. McEwen, Chris Whitaker et al. · Acta Tropica · 1992 · 118 citations

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  1. DT
    Daniel T. Blumstein

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    5 publications · 368 citations

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    Michael A. Weston

    Deakin University, Australia

    4 publications · 159 citations

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  3. WE
    William E. Cooper

    Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne, United States

    3 publications · 453 citations

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  4. PG
    Patrick‐Jean Guay

    Deakin University, Australia

    3 publications · 134 citations

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  5. JJ
    Jukka Jokimäki

    University of Lapland, Finland

    2 publications · 86 citations

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Institutions

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  1. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    490 citations

  2. Magyar Agrár- és Élettudományi Egyetem

    Gödöllő, Hungary

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    86 citations

  3. University of Alberta

    Edmonton, Canada

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    111 citations

  4. Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne

    Fort Wayne, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    829 citations

  5. Deakin University

    Burwood, Australia

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    120 citations

  6. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    169 citations

  7. Norwegian University of Life Sciences

    Ås, Norway

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    109 citations

  8. University of Sussex

    Brighton, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    168 citations

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  1. Environmental Entomology

    4 publications · 190 citations

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  2. Journal of Comparative Physiology A

    3 publications · 102 citations

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  3. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

    3 publications · 217 citations

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  4. Canadian Journal of Zoology

    3 publications · 267 citations

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  5. Animal Behaviour

    3 publications · 118 citations

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