The Influence of Tide, Wind, and Habitat on the Abundance and Foraging Rate of Three Species of Imperiled Plovers in Southwest Florida, USA [PDF]
Animals, 2023 Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus), Snowy Plover (Charadrius nivosus), and Wilson’s Plover (Charadrius wilsonia) are imperiled species that overlap in both their range and habitat outside the breeding season.
Jayden L. Jech, Elizabeth A. Forys
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Multi-year monitoring of Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus) and other shorebirds in The Bahamas [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2023 The Bahamas provides a wide range of crucial coastal habitats to many declining resident and migratory birds. Amongst these species is the Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus), whose breeding populations are all listed as federally threatened or endangered
Matthew Jeffery +7 more
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Data integration reveals dynamic and systematic patterns of breeding habitat use by a threatened shorebird [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Incorporating species distributions into conservation planning has traditionally involved long-term representations of habitat use where temporal variation is averaged to reveal habitats that are most suitable across time.
Kristen S. Ellis +7 more
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Integrating species-centric and geomorphic-centric views of interior least tern and piping plover habitat selection [PDF]
Heliyon, 2018 The Federally endangered interior least tern (Sterna antillarum athalassos) and threatened piping plover (Charadrius melodus) nest on emergent sandbars in several braided rivers in the USA.
Jason M. Farnsworth +2 more
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Distributing transmitters to maximize population-level representativeness in automated radio telemetry studies of animal movement [PDF]
Movement Ecology, 2023 Telemetry is a powerful and indispensable tool for evaluating wildlife movement and distribution patterns, particularly in systems where opportunities for direct observation are limited. However, the effort and expense required to track individuals often
Juliet S. Lamb +2 more
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Using a Bayesian network to understand the importance of coastal storms and undeveloped landscapes for the creation and maintenance of early successional habitat. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Coastal storms have consequences for human lives and infrastructure but also create important early successional habitats for myriad species. For example, storm-induced overwash creates nesting habitat for shorebirds like piping plovers (Charadrius ...
Sara L Zeigler +8 more
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Biotic and abiotic factors affecting Atlantic ghost crab (Ocypode quadrata) spatiotemporal activity at an important shorebird nesting site in Virginia. [PDF]
PLoS ONEAtlantic ghost crabs (Ocypode quadrata) are predators of beach-nesting shorebird nests and chicks on the United States' Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Ghost crabs may also disturb birds, altering foraging, habitat use, or nest and brood attendance patterns ...
Mikayla N Call +8 more
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Polygamy slows down population divergence in shorebirds. [PDF]
Evolution, 2017 Sexual selection may act as a promotor of speciation since divergent mate choice and competition for mates can rapidly lead to reproductive isolation.
D'Urban Jackson J +10 more
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Habitat selection and potential fitness consequences of two early‐successional species with differing life‐history strategies [PDF]
Ecology 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
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The importance of viewshed in nest site selection of a ground-nesting shorebird. [PDF]
PLoS ONEBirds and their nests are vulnerable to predation during the breeding season. Many birds have evolved nest placement strategies that minimize risk such as concealing nests in vegetation, or nesting in inaccessible cavities or on cliffs.
Sharon S Dorsey +8 more
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