Recent advances in understanding migration systems of New World land birds

J Faaborg, RT Holmes, AD Anders… - Ecological …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Our understanding of migratory birds' year‐round ecology and evolution remains patchy
despite recent fundamental advances. Periodic reviews focus future research and inform …

Conserving stopover sites for forest-dwelling migratory landbirds

DW Mehlman, SE Mabey, DN Ewert, C Duncan… - The Auk, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Commentary 1282[Auk, Vol. 122 al. 2002, Tankersley and Orvis 2003). Given that migration
may constitute the most vulnerable and unpredictable period of the annual cycle (Moore …

Landbird migration in the American West: recent progress and future research directions

JD Carlisle, SK Skagen, BE Kus, CV Riper III… - The Condor, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Our knowledge of avian behaviors during the nonbreeding period still lags behind that of the
breeding season, but the last decade has witnessed a proliferation in research that has …

Rethinking Avian Response to Tamarix on the Lower Colorado River: A Threshold Hypothesis

C Van Riper III, KL Paxton, C O'Brien… - Restoration …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Many of the world's large river systems have been greatly altered in the past century due to
river regulation, agriculture, and invasion of introduced Tamarix spp.(saltcedar, tamarisk) …

Consistency of mist netting and point counts in assessing landbird species richness and relative abundance during migration

Y Wang, DM Finch - The Condor, 2002 - academic.oup.com
We compared consistency of species richness and relative abundance data collected
concurrently using mist netting and point counts during migration in riparian habitats along …

[图书][B] Saving migrant birds: developing strategies for the future

J Faaborg - 2002 - degruyter.com
Around 1990 the apparent declines in the populations of many bird species that wintered in
the Tropics were quickly explained as being the result of loss of tropical habitats, particularly …

Land Use, anthropogenic disturbance, and riverine features drive patterns of habitat selection by a wintering waterbird in a semi-arid environment

MA Boggie, DP Collins, JP Donnelly, SA Carleton - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
River ecosystems in semi-arid environments provide an array of resources that concentrate
biodiversity, but also attract human settlement and support economic development. In the …

Landbird use of riparian and upland forest stopover habitats in an urban landscape

PG Rodewald, SN Matthews - The Condor, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Stopover habitat relationships of landbirds are not well known and this constitutes a
shortcoming in conservation plans for migratory birds. We compared migrant use of mature …

Spatial and Temporal Migration Patterns of Wilson's Warbler (Wilsonia Pusilla) in the Southwest as Revealed by Stable Isotopes

KL Paxton, C Van Riper III, TC Theimer, EH Paxton - The Auk, 2007 - academic.oup.com
We used stable hydrogen isotopes (δD) to identify the breeding locations of Wilson's
Warbler (Wilsonia pusilla) migrating through five sites spanning a cross-section of the …

Stopover habitat use by spring migrant landbirds: the roles of habitat structure, leaf development, and food availability

PG Rodewald, MC Brittingham - The Auk, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Stopover habitat quality may influence the abundance of migrant landbirds, yet little is
known about how spatial and temporal changes in stopover habitat quality influence the use …