Do hyperabundant Arctic-nesting geese pose a problem for sympatric species?

SA Flemming, A Calvert, E Nol… - Environmental …, 2016 - cdnsciencepub.com
Arctic-breeding geese are at record high population levels and are causing significant
changes to some of their breeding and staging habitats. These changes could influence …

Nest site selection by Holarctic waterfowl: a multi-level review

MW Eichholz, J Elmberg - Wildfowl, 2014 - wildfowl.wwt.org.uk
Because of birds' mobility, behaviour and many species' migratory nature, they select
repeatedly and spatially among habitats and have been central figures in studies of avian …

Predator-mediated interactions through changes in predator home range size can lead to local prey exclusion

A Beardsell, D Berteaux… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The strength of indirect biotic interactions is difficult to quantify in the wild and can alter
community composition. To investigate whether the presence of a prey species affects the …

Effects of landscape-scale environmental variation on greater sage-grouse chick survival

MR Guttery, DK Dahlgren, TA Messmer, JW Connelly… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Effective long-term wildlife conservation planning for a species must be guided by
information about population vital rates at multiple scales. Greater sage-grouse …

Range‐wide sources of variation in reproductive rates of northern spotted owls

JT Rockweit, JM Jenkins, JE Hines… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We conducted a range‐wide investigation of the dynamics of site‐level reproductive rate of
northern spotted owls using survey data from 11 study areas across the subspecies …

Predation risk is a function of alternative prey availability rather than predator abundance in a tropical savanna woodland ecosystem

EJ Nordberg, L Schwarzkopf - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Typically, factors influencing predation risk are viewed only from the perspective of predators
or prey populations but few studies have examined predation risk in the context of a food …

Drivers of waterfowl population dynamics: from teal to swans

DN Koons, G Gunnarsson, JA Schmutz, JJ Rotella - Wildfowl, 2014 - diva-portal.org
Waterfowl are among the best studied and most extensively monitored species in the world.
Given their global importance for sport and subsistence hunting, viewing and ecosystem …

Predator‐mediated negative effects of overabundant snow geese on arctic‐nesting shorebirds

JF Lamarre, P Legagneux, G Gauthier, ET Reed… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Overabundant species can strongly impact ecosystem functioning through trophic cascades.
The strong increase in several arctic geese populations, primarily due to changes in …

Current and potential threats to Nordic duck populations—a horizon scanning exercise

AD Fox, JE Jónsson, T Aarvak, T Bregnballe… - Annales Zoologici …, 2015 - BioOne
We review the current and future threats to duck populations that breed, stage, moult and/or
winter in the Nordic countries. Migratory duck species are sensitive indicators of their …

Migratory herds of wildebeests and zebras indirectly affect calf survival of giraffes

DE Lee, BM Kissui, YA Kiwango… - Ecology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In long‐distance migratory systems, local fluctuations in the predator–prey ratio can exhibit
extreme variability within a single year depending upon the seasonal location of migratory …