It is intriguing that the fourth edition of the main British ecology textbook Ecology: From
Individuals to Ecosystems (Begon et al., 2006) does not include habitat selection or habitat …

Microplastic transfer between horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus) and migratory
shorebirds through consumption of crab eggs was examined in Jamaica Bay, New York …

Migratory shorebirds, characterized as opportunistic species, are traversed by diverse
distances in pursuit of food. A systematic review was conducted using different databases to …

Numbers of Western Atlantic Red Knots (Calidris canutus rufa (A. Wilson, 1813)) have
declined since 1980, with a sustained downward trend observed after 1998. Because the …

Impacts of ecological mismatches should be most pronounced at points of the annual cycle
when populations depend on a predictable, abundant, and aggregated food resource that …

Shorebird use of horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) eggs as food items has been well
documented along the Atlantic coast of the United States at northeastern stopover sites such …

The rufa red knot (Calidris canutus rufa) is a migratory shorebird that performs one of the
longest known trans-hemispheric migrations of any bird species—from their breeding …

Assessing environmental injury requires accurate, timely information of damage responses
and realistic translation of that information into estimates of services lost to the public. The …

Understanding factors that influence a species' distribution and abundance across the
annual cycle is required for range-wide conservation. Thousands of imperiled red knots …

Horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) eggs are a dietary staple of the red knot (Calidris
canutus) during its spring stopover on the Delaware Bay. Numbers of knots stopping in …