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Survival of fallen and returned rooftop nesting Least Tern chicks

open access: yesAvian Conservation and Ecology
Beach habitat is increasingly degraded and disturbed, and many species of Larids (gulls, terns, and skimmers) have adapted to nesting on gravel rooftops.
Elizabeth A Forys   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Photograph of a Least Tern

open access: yes, 2020
Color photograph. A group of Sternula antillanim on edge of lake. The Least Tern is the smallest American tern.

core   +5 more sources

Effects of Atlantic butterfish ( Peprilus triacanthus ) in diets of Common Terns ( Sterna hirundo ): a case study of climate change effects in the Gulf of Maine

open access: yesAvian Conservation and Ecology, 2023
Climate change and associated shifts in marine prey communities can alter food availability for foraging seabirds. This issue is illustrated in the Gulf of Maine by the northward shift of Atlantic butterfish ( Peprilus triacanthus ; hereafter butterfish)
Olivia A Smith, Elizabeth C Craig
doaj   +1 more source

Examining the fluvial alteration hypothesis amidst recovery of the Interior Least Tern (Sternula antillarum)

open access: yesEcosphere, 2021
The world's large river systems are under increasing stress to support growing populations and economies. Balancing inevitable fluvial alteration with protections of river ecosystems will require awareness of lessons learned in big river systems where ...
J. S. Alexander   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

aerodyneresearch/TERN: TERN, v 2.2.19b

open access: yes, 2022
This is the current version of TERN, released in early 2022. This version supports summing ion signals into a synthetic signal for peak fitting. Do note that this version of TERN is NOT compatible with Igor Pro 9.
bmlerner
core   +1 more source

Interior Least Tern and Piping Plover nest and brood survival at managed, off-channel sites along the central Platte River, Nebraska, USA 2001-2015

open access: yesAvian Conservation and Ecology, 2018
The Platte River Recovery Implementation Program (PRRIP) and its partners invested substantial resources in creating and managing off-channel nesting habitat for Interior Least Terns (Sternula antillarum athalassos) and Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus)
Patrick D. Farrell   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Conservation status, feeding guilds, and diversity of birds in Daroji Sloth Bear Sanctuary, Karnataka, India

open access: yesJournal of Threatened Taxa, 2021
The present study was carried out to investigate the importance of habitat quality for the diversity, distribution, and abundance of avifauna in Daroji Sloth Bear Sanctuary, Ballari District from February 2015 to January 2016.
M.N. Harisha   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bird community structure of small islands: a case study on the Pahawang Island, Lampung Province, Indonesia [PDF]

open access: yesSilva Balcanica, 2020
Small islands are extremely vulnerable to ecosystem disturbances. One of the common factors im-pacting on island ecosystems is the rise of tourism activity and the associated conversion of man-grove forest’s function into tourism’s ...
Dian Iswandaru   +8 more
doaj   +3 more sources

The biology and conservation of the Damara Tern in Namibia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The globally Near-threatened Damara Tern Sterna balaenarum is little known and faces several conservation issues. The aim of this study was to provide a description of the ecology and numbers of the species and discuss conservation management plans that ...
Braby, Justine
core   +1 more source

Habitat selection and potential fitness consequences of two early‐successional species with differing life‐history strategies

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2019
Habitat selection and its relationship to fitness is a fundamental concept in ecology, but the mechanisms driving this connection are complex and difficult to detect.
Daniel Catlin   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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