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The population dynamical implications of male-biased parasitism in different mating systems. [PDF]

, 2007
Although there is growing evidence that males tend to suffer higher levels of parasitism than females, the implications of this for the population dynamics of the host population are not yet understood. Here we build on an established ‘two-sex’ model and
White, Andrew, Boots, M., Miller Martin R., Wilson Kenneth, Kenneth Wilson, White, A., White, Andrew; id_orcid, Michael Boots, White Andrew, Martin R Miller, Andrew White, Boots, Michael, Wilson, K., Miller, Martin R., Miller, M.R., Boots Michael, Wilson, Kenneth   +16 more
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The Importance of Agriculture-Dominated Landscapes and Lack of Field Border Effect for Early-Succession Songbird Nest Success

Avian Conservation and Ecology, 2010
In recent decades, many early-succession songbird species have experienced severe and widespread declines, which often are related to habitat destruction. Field borders create additional or enhance existing early-succession habitat on farmland. However,
Jason D. Riddle, Christopher E. Moorman
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A review of the cues used for rejecting foreign eggs from the nest by the Eurasian blackbird (Turdus merula)

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Avian brood parasitism is reproductively costly for hosts and selects for cognitive features enabling anti‐parasitic resistance at multiple stages of the host's breeding cycle.
Andrew G. Fulmer, Mark E. Hauber
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Egg rejection behavior does not explain the lack of cowbird parasitism on an eastern North American population of Red-winged Blackbirds

Avian Research, 2019
Background Red-winged Blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus), hereafter red-wings, are much less frequently parasitized by Brown-headed Cowbirds (Molothrus ater) in eastern North America than in central North America and had not been recorded as hosts in our ...
Justin J. Reel, Todd J. Underwood
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How does human disturbance affect brood parasitism and nest predation in hosts inhabiting a highly fragmented landscape?

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020
Human disturbance represents a considerable challenge for the conservation of living organisms and has profound negative impacts globally. There is substantial variation in how species respond to human disturbance. The main aim of the present study is to
Mominul Islam Nahid, Frode Fossøy, Bård G. Stokke, Sajeda Begum, Eivin Røskaft, Peter S. Ranke   +5 more
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Effect of Feathers as Nest Insulation on Incubation Behavior and Reproductive Performance of Tree Swallows (\u3cem\u3eTachycineta bicolor\u3c/em\u3e) [PDF]

, 1995
Many species of birds line their nests with feathers, presumably because of the insulative qualities of feathers and because feathers may act as a barrier between nest parasites and nestlings.
Faro, Christine A, Bosman, Ruth M, Houtteman, Stephen G, Kluisza, Timothy S, Lombardo, Michael P   +4 more
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Evidence for adaptive explanations of semelparity in animals

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Semelparity, the reproductive strategy of reproducing once, is widespread but uncommon in animals. Classes of models to explain the evolution of semelparity are based either on age structure and mortality schedules – demographic models in which high post‐reproductive mortality risk favours high reproductive effort and semelparity results from ...
Diana O. Fisher, Roberto Salguero‐Gómez   +1 more
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Nest Parasitism on Constructed Islands in Northwestern North Dakota [PDF]

, 2003
Parasitism of duck nests can reduce host productivity. We examined effects of nest parasitism on success of host nests found on constructed islands in the Fuller-Big Meadows marsh in northwestern North Dakota from 1994 to 2000.
Zimmerman, Amy L, Kessler, Tim K, Murphy, Robert K, Sovada, Marsha A.   +3 more
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Owens Valley nesting willow flycatcher under pressure

California Fish and Wildlife Journal, 2021
Willow flycatchers (Empidonax traillii; WIFL) nest along the Owens River and Horton Creek in the Owens Valley. Migrating WIFL visit these sites as well as many other tributaries to both the Owens River and Mono Lake.
Lacey Greene, Elsbeth Otto, Chris McCreedy   +2 more
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From neurons to nests : nest-building behaviour as a model in behavioural and comparative neuroscience [PDF]

, 2015
This work was supported by funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/ I019502/1 to SDH and SLM) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (grant number PGSD3-409582-2011 to ZJH) and Roslin ...
Healy, Susan Denise, Hall, Zachary J., Healy, Susan D., Susan D. Healy, Hall, Zachary Jonas, Simone L. Meddle, Meddle, Simone L, Meddle, Simone L.; id_orcid, Zachary J. Hall, Healy, Susan Denise; id_orcid   +9 more
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