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Timing of Breeding Site Availability Across the North-American Arctic Partly Determines Spring Migration Schedule in a Long-Distance Neotropical Migrant

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Long-distance migrants are under strong selection to arrive on their breeding grounds at a time that maximizes fitness. Many arctic birds start nesting shortly after snow recedes from their breeding sites and timing of snowmelt can vary substantially ...
Jean-François Lamarre, Jean-François Lamarre, Gilles Gauthier, Richard B. Lanctot, Sarah T. Saalfeld, Oliver P. Love, Eric Reed, Oscar W. Johnson, Joe Liebezeit, Rebecca McGuire, Mike Russell, Erica Nol, Laura Koloski, Felicia Sanders, Laura McKinnon, Paul A. Smith, Scott A. Flemming, Nicolas Lecomte, Marie-Andrée Giroux, Silke Bauer, Tamara Emmenegger, Tamara Emmenegger, Joël Bêty   +22 more
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Breeding Dispersal of Baltic Dunlins Is Not an Adaptive Response to Unpredictable Nest Flooding

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
Flood‐related nest losses of the Baltic dunlin (Calidris alpina schinzii) have drastically increased over the past two decades. Using 20 years of reproductive data from 184 individuals, we found that between‐year and within‐site dispersal tended to increase following nest failure in males.
Jelena Belojević, Lisa Kreye, Florian Braig, Mikko Oranen, Clemens Küpper, Kari Koivula, Veli‐Matti Pakanen   +6 more
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Success of captive-rearing for a threatened shorebird

Endangered Species Research, 2013
Captive-breeding and -rearing programs have been widely used for the conservation and recovery of imperiled species, and the success of such programs should be rigorously evaluated.
KK Neuman, LE Stenzel, JC Warriner, GW Page, JL Erbes, CR Eyster, E Miller, LA Henkel   +7 more
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When and why to give shorebirds a head start

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Headstarting is a translocation technique involving the hatching or rearing of wild eggs or young in captivity and the release of those individuals back to the wild at or before independence. It has been trialed as a conservation intervention for shorebirds over recent decades to improve the population trend of target populations by increasing
Lynda Donaldson, Alex Nicol‐Harper, Rebecca Lee, Nigel S. Jarrett, Geoff M. Hilton   +4 more
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Habitat selection and potential fitness consequences of two early‐successional species with differing life‐history strategies

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, Daniel Gibson, Meryl J. Friedrich, Kelsi L. Hunt, Sarah M. Karpanty, James D. Fraser   +5 more
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Extreme site fidelity in long‐distance migratory shorebirds in Australia and potential implications for conservation

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Site fidelity is the tendency for animals to repeatedly return to the same locations, either within or between years. Site fidelity enables animals to utilize knowledge of previously visited locations, including assessments of seasonal variations in health and mortality risks (e.g., predation), resource availability, and social benefits such ...
Tobias A. Ross, Australasian Wader Studies Group, Victorian Wader Study Group, Queensland Wader Study Group, Robyn Atkinson, Maureen Christie, Danny I. Rogers, Chris Hassell, Roz Jessop, Jonathan T. Coleman, Theunis Piersma, Sara Ryding, Aaron Spence, Marcel Klaassen   +13 more
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Direct and indirect effects of nesting density on survival and breeding propensity of an endangered shorebird

Ecosphere, 2019
Density‐dependent regulation is a fundamental part of ecological theory and a significant driver of animal demography often through complex feedback loops.
Daniel H. Catlin, Daniel Gibson, Kelsi L. Hunt, Meryl J. Friedrich, Chelsea E. Weithman, Sarah M. Karpanty, James D. Fraser   +6 more
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Interior Least Tern and Piping Plover nest and brood survival at managed, off-channel sites along the central Platte River, Nebraska, USA 2001-2015

Avian 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, David M. Baasch, Jason M. Farnsworth, Chadwin B. Smith   +3 more
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Regional models of the influence of human disturbance and habitat quality on the distribution of breeding territories of common ringed plover Charadrius hiaticula and Eurasian oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021
We estimated the influence of human disturbance and environmental factors on territory establishment in common ringed plovers Charadrius hiaticula and Eurasian oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus, to inform the conservation of these species. We examined
Jamie A. Tratalos, Andy P. Jones, David A. Showler, Jennifer A. Gill, Ian J. Bateman, Robert Sugden, Andrew R. Watkinson, William J. Sutherland   +7 more
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Does conservation status predict research output?

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract The Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 uses the best available science to protect threatened and endangered species, but limited knowledge of listed species can undermine conservation success. This study examined whether ESA‐listed species receive more peer‐reviewed publications than ecologically similar non‐listed species.
Cody P. Griffin, Landon K. Neumann, Remy C. Sutherland, Nathan M. Moore, Samuel D. Fuhlendorf, Craig A. Davis, Alexander G. Barnes, Maria G. Bleitz, Jullianna K. McCauley, Cameron M. Sherbon, Adam J. Vonderschmidt, Katie N. Worden   +11 more
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