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Star Compass Orientation

Star Compass Orientation is a navigational mechanism, belonging to the class of orientation behaviors, that enables an organism to maintain a consistent direction of movement by using the spatial arrangement of stars as celestial cues for directional reference.

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95

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2017–2026

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42

Biological compasses and the coordinate frame of landmark memories in honeybees

Thomas S Collett, Jérôme Baron · Nature · 1994 · 196 citations

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The Interaction of Stars and Magnetic Field in the Orientation System of Night Migrating Birds

Wolfgang Wiltschko, Roswitha Wiltschko · Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie · 1975 · 141 citations

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A sun compass in monarch butterflies

Sandra M. Perez, Orley R. Taylor, Rudolf Jander · Nature · 1997 · 127 citations

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Interrelation of magnetic compass and star orientation in night-migrating birds

Wolfgang Wiltschko, Roswitha Wiltschko · Journal of Comparative Physiology A · 1976 · 119 citations

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Weak Broadband Electromagnetic Fields are More Disruptive to Magnetic Compass Orientation in a Night-Migratory Songbird (Erithacus rubecula) than Strong Narrow-Band Fields

Susanne Schwarze, Nils-Lasse Schneider, Thomas Reichl et al. · Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience · 2016 · 116 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. RW
    Roswitha Wiltschko

    Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

    10 publications · 697 citations

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  2. WW
    Wolfgang Wiltschko

    Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

    10 publications · 640 citations

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  3. NC
    Nikita Chernetsov

    Zoological Institute, Russia

    4 publications · 70 citations

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  4. HM
    Henrik Mouritsen

    Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany

    3 publications · 213 citations

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  5. AY
    A. Yu. Pakhomov

    Zoological Institute, Russia

    3 publications · 54 citations

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Institutions

38

  1. Goethe University Frankfurt

    Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    10 h-index

    25 publications

    1.7K citations

  2. St Petersburg University

    Saint Petersburg, Russia

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    70 citations

  3. Zoological Institute

    St Petersburg, Russia

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    123 citations

  4. University of Florence

    Florence, Italy

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    135 citations

  5. Lund University

    Lund, Sweden

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    220 citations

  6. Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

    Oldenburg, Germany

    2 h-index

    10 publications

    848 citations

  7. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    8 publications

    388 citations

  8. Technical University of Denmark

    Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    130 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Comparative Physiology A

    4 publications · 236 citations

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  2. Animal Behaviour

    3 publications · 101 citations

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  3. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

    3 publications · 102 citations

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  4. Journal of Experimental Biology

    3 publications · 129 citations

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  5. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

    2 publications · 148 citations

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