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Conservation Biology, 2004
Abstract: In the past two decades, many researchers have used artificial nests to measure relative rates of nest predation. Recent comparisons show that real and artificial nests may not be depredated at the same rates, but no one has examined the mechanisms underlying these patterns.
Frank Thompson III, Dirk E Burhans
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Abstract: In the past two decades, many researchers have used artificial nests to measure relative rates of nest predation. Recent comparisons show that real and artificial nests may not be depredated at the same rates, but no one has examined the mechanisms underlying these patterns.
Frank Thompson III, Dirk E Burhans
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Suitability of Artificial Nests
Science, 2010The Report “Lower predation risk for migratory birds at high latitudes” by L. McKinnon et al. (15 January, p. [326][1]) describes a massive artificial nest experiment spanning 29 degrees of latitude in the high Arctic.
John Faaborg
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An Artificial Nest Box For Burrow-Nesting Seabirds
Emu - Austral Ornithology, 1995(1995). An Artificial Nest Box For Burrow-Nesting Seabirds. Emu - Austral Ornithology: Vol. 95, No. 4, pp. 290-294.
David Priddel, Nicholas Carlile
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Effects of Nest-Site Selection on Depredation of Artificial Nests
The Journal of Wildlife Management, 1989We compared depredation of artificial arboreal nests between nests placed at nest sites used by birds in the previous season (actual nests) and those located at random nest sites (random nests) on a ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus) management area in central Pennsylvania from May to July 1987.
Richard H. Yahner, Richard A. Voytko
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Suitability of Artificial Nests—Response
Science, 2010Faaborg presents a valid concern that artificial nests should not be used to infer real nest success. For our study, we chose artificial nests to provide a controlled measure of relative predation risk across latitudes, not to infer real nest success.
L. McKinnon +8 more
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Cavity nesting in stitchbirds and the use of artificial nest sites
Notornis, 1989Cavity nesting by Stitchbirds (Notiomystis cincta) was studied on Little Barrier Island by adding artificial nest sites (boxes) in a breeding habitat. The addition of boxes was a test of the theory that the number of breeding pairs of cavity nesting species is limited by the availability of suitable holes for nest sites. Site limitation is also said to
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Predation on artificial bird nests in chaparral fragments
Oecologia, 1991The predation rate of artificial bird nests was measured in disturbed chaparral habitat fragments and at an unfragmented site in coastal San Diego County, California USA. Local extinctions of chaparral birds has been previously shown to occur in these fragments. The predation rate was highest at the unfragmented site.
Tom A, Langen +2 more
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Validity of Using Artificial Nests to Assess Duck-Nest Success
The Journal of Wildlife Management, 1998Artificial nests have been used in numerous studies of nest success because they can provide adequate sample sizes and be placed in accordance with experimental designs. However, the critical assumption that a strong linear relation exists between success of artificial and natural nests has rarely been tested.
Michael A. Butler, Jay J. Rotella
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The Auk, 2004
Abstract Incubation is an energetically demanding process for parents, in part because of the thermodynamic costs of maintaining egg temperature. One might predict that aspects of nest construction—in particular, the thermodynamic properties of the nesting material and the degree to which the nest provides shelter from the wind—would have important ...
Geoff M. Hilton +4 more
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Abstract Incubation is an energetically demanding process for parents, in part because of the thermodynamic costs of maintaining egg temperature. One might predict that aspects of nest construction—in particular, the thermodynamic properties of the nesting material and the degree to which the nest provides shelter from the wind—would have important ...
Geoff M. Hilton +4 more
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Nest predation in a fragmented Afrotropical forest: evidence from natural and artificial nests
Biological Conservation, 2005Abstract Nest predation accounts for a substantial share of nest failure and low reproductive success in most tropical songbirds. Normally, forest fragmentation leads to an increase in nest predation pressure due to reduced cover, fewer (and poorer) nest sites and predator influxes from the surrounding habitats.
Githiru, Mwangi +2 more
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