Conservation & Biodiversity
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Evaluating temporal and spatial transferability of a tidal inundation model for foraging waterbirds
(Ecosphere, 2022-04-03)For ecosystem models to be applicable outside their context of development, temporal and spatial transferability must be demonstrated. This presents a challenge for modeling intertidal ecosystems where spatiotemporal ... -
Ramsar Wetlands of International Importance–Improving Conservation Outcomes
(Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2021-03-22)The Ramsar Convention (or the Convention on Wetlands), signed in 1971, was one of the first international conservation agreements, promoting global wise use of wetlands. It has three primary objectives: national designation ... -
The Role of Stress Proteins in the Study of Allostatic Overload in Birds: Use and Applicability to Current Studies in Avian Ecology
(Hindawi, 2007-09-28)Stress proteins offer a measure of stress in birds at the cellular level that are an alternative to the glucocorticoids. Stress proteins are not biased by handling stress, the increase in stress proteins lasts longer than ... -
Physiological Condition of Juvenile Wading Birds in Relation to Multiple Landscape Stressors in the Florida Everglades: Effects of Hydrology, Prey Availability, and Mercury Bioaccumulation
(PLoS ONE, 2014-09-03)The physiological condition of juvenile birds can be influenced by multiple ecological stressors, and few studies have concurrently considered the effects of environmental contaminants in combination with ecological ... -
Linking Dynamic Habitat Selection with Wading Bird Foraging Distributions across Resource Gradients
(PLoS ONE, 2015-06-24)Species distribution models (SDM) link species occurrence with a suite of environmental predictors and provide an estimate of habitat quality when the variable set captures the biological requirements of the species. SDMs ... -
Determining habitat quality for species that demonstrate dynamic habitat selection
(Ecology and Evolution, 2015-11-19)Determining habitat quality for wildlife populations requires relating a species' habitat to its survival and reproduction. Within a season, species occurrence and density can be disconnected from measures of habitat quality ... -
Mechanisms That Generate Resource Pulses in a Fluctuating Wetland
(PLoS ONE, 2016-07-22)Animals living in patchy environments may depend on resource pulses to meet the high energetic demands of breeding. We developed two primary a priori hypotheses to examine relationships between three categories of wading ... -
Time‐integrated habitat availability is a resource attribute that informs patterns of use in intertidal areas
(Ecological Monographs, 2018-05-30)In dynamic environments, resource availability may change by several orders of magnitude, over hours to months, but the duration of resource availability is not often included as a characteristic attribute of resources ... -
Urban food subsidies reduce natural food limitations and reproductive costs for a wetland bird
(Scientific Reports, 2020-08-20)There is a strong conservation need to understand traits of species that adapt to urban environments, but results have been equivocal. Wetland birds exhibit a strong phylogenetic signal towards urban tolerance; however, ...
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