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Warming Arctic summers unlikely to increase productivity of shorebirds through renesting
Scientific Reports, 2021 Climate change in the Arctic is leading to earlier summers, creating a phenological mismatch between the hatching of insectivorous birds and the availability of their invertebrate prey.
Sarah T. Saalfeld +4 more
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Ecosphere, 2023 Ranges of species around the world are expected to contract in response to climate change. Species distribution models (SDMs) are a powerful tool for predicting changes in habitat availability, but the variables selected to create SDMs influence their ...
Lynn N. Schofield +2 more
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PRELIMINARY BASELINE SURVEY OF AVIFAUNAL DIVERSITY IN JIMMA ZONE, SOUTH-WESTERN ETHIOPIA [PDF]
, 2010 Multidimensional poverty, which is deeply-rooted within least-developed African countries like Ethiopia, is forcing local people to heavily rely on natural resources for their subsistent livelihoods.
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Matching times of leading and following suggest cooperation through direct reciprocity during V-formation flight in ibis [PDF]
, 2015 One conspicuous feature of several larger bird species is their annual migration in V-shaped or echelon formation. When birds are flying in these formations, energy savings can be achieved by using the aerodynamic up-wash produced by the preceding bird ...
Alan M. Wilson +11 more
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1879 Abstract Our knowledge of the recent Avifauna of the island of Rodriguez has hitherto been confined to a few memoirs published by Mr. Edward Newton, and Professor Alfred Newton of Cambridge. The former has given us an account of a hurried trip of a few days duration made by him in 1864 (Ibis, 1865, pp.
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Food and Energy Security, 2023 In recent years, fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda, has emerged as one of the most serious invasive species in many countries across Africa, Asia and Oceania.
Justice A. Tambo +4 more
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Using digital recordings and sonogram analysis to obtain counts of yellow rails
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2016 Autonomous recording units (ARUs) are emerging as a useful technology for the study and monitoring of animals that produce vocalizations. During summer and fall of 2013, we performed a series of experiments aimed at developing sampling protocols to count
Kiel L. Drake +3 more
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Movement Ecology, 2023 Background To understand the ecology of long-distance migrant bird species, it is necessary to study their full annual cycle, including migratory routes and stopovers.
Yann Rime +8 more
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Congruence between breeding and wintering biodiversity hotspots: A case study in farmlands of Western Poland [PDF]
, 2018 Farmland landscapes are recognized as important ecosystems, not only for their rich biodiversity but equally so for the human beings who live and work in these places. However, biodiversity varies among sites (spatial change) and among seasons (
Indykiewicz, Piotr +6 more
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2019 In 1918, a strain of influenza A virus caused a human pandemic resulting in the deaths of 50 million people. A century later, with the advent of sequencing technology and corresponding phylogenetic methods, we know much more about the origins, evolution ...
S. Lycett, Florian Duchatel, P. Digard
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