Animal migrations act to couple ecosystems and are undertaken by some of the world's most
endangered taxa. Predators often exploit migrant prey, but the movements taken by these …

Beyond their commercial importance for LAL and bait, and their status as a living fossil, it is
often asserted that horseshoe crabs play a vital role in the ecology of estuarine and coastal …

Shorebirds are declining to a greater extent than many other avian taxa around the world. In
North America, shorebirds, along with aerial insectivores and grassland birds, have some of …

Molecular scatology and next-generation sequencing identified previously unknown
linkages among ecosystems in the diet of Semipalmated Sandpipers (Calidris pusilla) in the …

Understanding how events during one period of the annual cycle carry over to affect survival
and other fitness components in other periods is essential to understanding migratory bird …

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 …

Based on longitudinal studies-some into their fifth decade-of colonial waterbirds, this book
provides a clear picture of the corrosive effects of heavy metals in the aquatic environment …

The largest aggregation of spawning American horseshoe crabs in the world occurs in
Delaware Bay and supports one of the largest concentrations of shorebirds in the western …

Horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus) are bled for biomedical purposes to produce
Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL), a valuable material used to detect endotoxins in medical …

During its fall migration stopover on mudflats in the upper Bay of Fundy, Canada, the
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla) is thought to feed primarily on the amphipod …