The Pacific as the world's greatest theater of bird migration: Extreme flights spark questions about physiological capabilities, behavior, and the evolution of migratory …

T Piersma, RE Gill Jr, DR Ruthrauff, CG Guglielmo… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Pacific Basin, by virtue of its vastness and its complex aeroscape, provides
unique opportunities to address questions about the behavioral and physiological …

Shorebirds ingest plastics too: what we know, what we do not know, and what we should do next

SA Flemming, RB Lanctot, C Price… - Environmental …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Concerns about the impact of plastics pollution on the environment have been growing
since the 1970s. Marine debris has reportedly entangled and (or) been ingested by 914 …

[HTML][HTML] Lateral carbon fluxes and CO2 evasion from a subtropical mangrove-seagrass-coral continuum

A Akhand, K Watanabe, A Chanda, T Tokoro… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Mangrove, seagrass, and coral habitats often lie adjacent to each other in the tropics and
subtropics. Lateral carbon fluxes and their consecutive effects on CO 2 dynamics and air …

Heavy metals in wetlands of southwestern India: from sediments through invertebrates to migratory shorebirds

KM Aarif, KA Rubeena, A Nefla, Z Musilova, P Musil… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Heavy metal pollution in Indian wetlands is rising due to industrial, agricultural and urban
development activities. Shorebirds occupy upper trophic levels and are therefore especially …

Variable and complex food web structures revealed by exploring missing trophic links between birds and biofilm

T Kuwae, E Miyoshi, S Hosokawa, K Ichimi… - Ecology …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Ecology Letters (2012) 15: 347–356 Abstract Food webs are comprised of a network of
trophic interactions and are essential to elucidating ecosystem processes and functions …

Gut microbiome is affected by inter-sexual and inter-seasonal variation in diet for thick-billed murres (Uria lomvia)

E Góngora, KH Elliott, L Whyte - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
The role of the gut microbiome is increasingly being recognized by health scientists and
veterinarians, yet its role in wild animals remains understudied. Variations in the gut …

Alterations in hydrological variables and substrate qualities and its impacts on a critical conservation reserve in the southwest coast of India

KA Rubeena, A Nefla, KM Aarif, SS AlMaarofi… - Marine Pollution …, 2023 - Elsevier
The present study investigated the long-term fluctuation in the hydrological and substrate
variables at different habitats of Kadalundi-Vallikkunnu Community Reserve (KVCR) over …

Composition and drivers of gut microbial communities in arctic-breeding shorebirds

K Grond, JW Santo Domingo, RB Lanctot… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Gut microbiota can have important effects on host health, but explanatory factors and
pathways that determine gut microbial composition can differ among host lineages. In …

Sandpipers go with the flow: Correlations between estuarine conditions and shorebird abundance at an important stopover on the Pacific Flyway

R Canham, SA Flemming, DD Hope… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Estuaries of major rivers provide important stopover habitat for migratory birds throughout
the world. These estuaries experience large amounts of freshwater inputs from spring runoff …

Regulatory role of sesarmid crabs in nutrient dynamics and implications for the productivity of mangroves

X Gao, JD Gaitan-Espitia, SY Lee - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2024 - Elsevier
The ecological role of brachyuran crabs in mangroves has been extensively studied, but
their role as mediators of biogeochemical processes of essential nutrients remains unclear …