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Do artificial nests simulate nest success of greater sage-grouse? [PDF]

Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017
Artificial nests have been used to study factors affecting nest success because researchers can manipulate them more than natural bird nests. Many researchers have questioned the validity of generalizing the results from artificial nests onto naturally ...
Jonathan B. Dinkins, Michael R. Conover, Scott T. Mabray   +2 more
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Decades of artificial nests towards African penguin conservation—Have they made a difference? [PDF]

Ecological Solutions and Evidence
African penguins are among the most threatened seabird species globally and an African Penguin Biodiversity Management Plan (BMP) published in 2013 guides conservation strategies to prevent their extinction.
L. Pichegru, R. B. Sherley, T. Malan, B. J. Barham, K. Ludynia, D. Geldenhuys, K. Amos, P. J. Barham, E. Drost, V. Hahndiek, A. Hufke, C. Hugo, C. Lawrence, C. McGeorge, A. M. McInnes, A. M. Makhado, M. Mashau, R. Milne, A. Purves, M. Slier, C. van derMerwe, N. J. vanWilgen, L. Waller   +22 more
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Are predation rates comparable between natural and artificial open-cup tree nests in boreal forest landscapes? [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2019
Nest predation studies often use artificial nests to secure sample sizes and nest distribution patterns that allow empirically testing differences in predation rates between ecological units of interest.
Katrine S Hoset, Magne Husby
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The suitability of artificial nests as nesting sites for cavity-nesting wasps and bees (Hymenoptera, Aculeata)

Annales Zoologici Fennici
Populations of several cavity-nesting aculeate wasps and bees have been in decline due to a shortage of nesting sites and changes in agricultural landscapes.
Leinonen, Reima, Holopainen, Jarmo K., Sorvari, Jouni, Paukkunen, Juho, Vanhanen, Henri, Pohjoismäki, Jaakko   +5 more
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Smart Nest Box: IoT Based Nest Monitoring In Artificial Cavities

2020 3rd International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet), 2020
With climate change, habitat loss, and impoverishment of food sources, several species of bird are are threatened today. It is crucial to conserve the biodiversity in ecosystems but the conservation that requires an improved knowledge of these. In this paper, we propose a low-cost connected nest box that make photos of nestling and measures them weight
Ait Abelouahid, Rachida, Debauche, Olivier, Mahmoudi, Said, Marzak, Abdelaziz, Manneback, Pierre, Lebeau, Frédéric   +5 more
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Eggs in the freezer: energetic consequences of nest site and nest design in Arctic breeding shorebirds [PDF]

, 2012
Birds construct nests for several reasons. For species that breed in the Arctic, the insulative properties of nests are very important. Incubation is costly there and due to an increasing surface to volume ratio, more so in smaller species. Small species
Hans Schekkerman, Tulp Ingrid, Leeuw, J.J., de, Ingrid Tulp, de Leeuw, J.J., Joep de Leeuw, Tulp, I., Schekkerman, H., Tulp, I.Y.M., de Leeuw Joep, Schekkerman Hans, Tulp, Ingrid, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet., De Leeuw, Joep, De Leeuw, Joep,, Hans, Schekkerman   +15 more
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The coevolution of building nests on the ground and domed nests in Timaliidae [PDF]

, 2015
This work was supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (grant number BB/I019502/1 to S.D.H.), The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (grant number PGSD3-409582-2011 to Z.J.H.), and the European ...
Hall, Z.J., Healy, S.D., Auty, S., Street, S.E.   +3 more
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Artificial covering on trap nests improves the colonization of trap‐nesting wasps [PDF]

Journal of Applied Entomology, 2008
AbstractTo evaluate the role that a trap‐nest cover might have on sampling methodologies, the abundance of each species of trap‐nesting Hymenoptera and the parasitism rate in a Canadian forest were compared between artificially covered and uncovered traps.
Taki, Hisatomo, Kevan, Peter G., Viana, Blandina F., Silva, Fabiana O., Buck, Matthias   +4 more
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Birds build camouflaged nests [PDF]

, 2014
This work was supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) (BB/I019502/1 to S.D.H. and S.L.M.) and by Roslin Institute Strategic Grant funding from the BBSRC (to S.L.M).It is assumed that many birds attempt to conceal ...
Meddle, Simone L., Healy, Susan Denise, Muth, Felicity, Bailey, Ida Elizabeth, Morgan, Kate   +4 more
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The First Results of the Artificial Nests Program for Birds of Prey in the Daurian Steppe (South-Eastern Transbaikalia, Russia)

Пернатые хищники и их охрана, 2019
The first results and the analysis of the effectiveness of the program aimed on installation of artificial nests in the Daurian steppe in the vicinity of the Daursky State Nature Biosphere Reserve (South-Eastern Transbaikalia; Russia) for the period from
Oleg A. Goroshko, Svetlana B. Balzhimaeva   +1 more
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