Influence of olfactory and visual cover on nest site selection and nest success for grassland-nesting birds [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2017 Habitat selection by animals is influenced by and mitigates the effects of predation and environmental extremes. For birds, nest site selection is crucial to offspring production because nests are exposed to extreme weather and predation pressure ...
Samuel D. Fuhlendorf +2 more
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Avian Conservation and Ecology, 2022 Understanding habitat selection and its fitness consequences in remnant populations of birds in fragmented and urbanized habitat may provide guidance to land managers for imperiled species conservation.
Alison R. Kocek +7 more
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A description of nesting behaviors, including factors impacting nest site selection, in black‐and‐white ruffed lemurs (Varecia variegata) [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Nest site selection is at once fundamental to reproduction and a poorly understood component of many organisms’ reproductive investment. This study investigates the nesting behaviors of black‐and‐white ruffed lemurs, Varecia variegata, a litter‐bearing ...
Andrea L. Baden
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Nest-site selection, reproductive ecology and shifts within core-use areas of Black-necked Cranes at the northern limit of the Tibetan Plateau [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 We investigated population dynamics, breeding pairs, breeding habitat selection, nest density, distance between neighboring nests, nest survival, reproductive success, and recruitment rate for Black-necked Cranes (BNC, Grus nigricollis) during 2013–2015 ...
Lixun Zhang +3 more
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Journal of Avian Biology, 2023 Selecting a suitable nest site is critical to the survival and reproduction of birds. Prospecting allows individuals to gather information on the local quality of potential future breeding sites, which may help them make the best nest site selection ...
Xudong Li +5 more
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Effects of grazing strategy on facultative grassland bird nesting on native grassland pastures of the Mid-South USA [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Understanding how livestock grazing strategies of native warm season grasses (NWSG) can impact facultative grassland bird nesting can provide insight for conservation efforts.
Byron R. Buckley +6 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
Tulp, Ingrid +2 more
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Home, dirty home: effect of old nest material on nest-site selection and breeding performance in a cavity-nesting raptor. [PDF]
Environmental Epigenetics, 2018 Nicola Saino +2 more
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Nest orientation and proximity to snow patches are important for nest site selection of a cavity breeder at high elevation [PDF]
, 2023 Timing and location of reproduction are central to reproductive success across taxa. Among birds, many species have evolved specific strategies to cope with environmental variability including shifts in timing of reproduction to track resource ...
Schano, Christian +7 more
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Nest site selection and breeding ecology of the Ferruginous Duck (Aythya nyroca) in Algeria
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 Ecologically, the Nature Reserve of Tonga Lake (northeastern Algeria) is very important for waterbirds. This study investigates breeding biology of an emblematic species of this region: The Ferruginous Duck (Aythya nyroca), a duck ranked globally 'Near ...
Karim Loucif +3 more
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