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 …

The role of the North American Breeding Bird survey in conservation

MAR Hudson, CM Francis, KJ Campbell… - The Condor …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) was established in 1966 in
response to a lack of quantitative data on changes in the populations of many bird species at …

Regional forest fragmentation and the nesting success of migratory birds

SK Robinson, FR Thompson III, TM Donovan… - Science, 1995 - science.org
Forest fragmentation, the disruption in the continuity of forest habitat, is hypothesized to be a
major cause of population decline for some species of forest birds because fragmentation …

Conserving migratory land birds in the New World: Do we know enough?

J Faaborg, RT Holmes, AD Anders… - Ecological …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Migratory bird needs must be met during four phases of the year: breeding season, fall
migration, wintering, and spring migration; thus, management may be needed during all four …

Linking breeding and wintering grounds of neotropical migrant songbirds using stable hydrogen isotopic analysis of feathers

KA Hobson, LI Wassenaar - Oecologia, 1996 - Springer
Recent studies have shown that stable hydrogen isotope ratios (δD) in the tissues of animals
often correlate with δD of local precipitation. Here we examined the relationship between δD …

Juvenile Survival in a Population of Neotropical Migrant Birds: Supervivencia de Juveniles en una Población de Aves Migratorias Neotropicales

AD Anders, DC Dearborn, J Faaborg… - Conservation …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
La determinación de la productividad poblacional de aves migratorias Neotropicales y la
evaluación de la calidad del hábitat para reproducción se han basado en densidades …

Control of Tamarix in the Western United States: Implications for Water Salvage, Wildlife Use, and Riparian Restoration

PB Shafroth, JR Cleverly, TL Dudley, JP Taylor… - Environmental …, 2005 - Springer
Non-native shrub species in the genus Tamarix (saltcedar, tamarisk) have colonized
hundreds of thousands of hectares of floodplains, reservoir margins, and other wetlands in …

Forest bird response to regeneration practices in central hardwood forests

EM Annand, FR Thompson III - The Journal of Wildlife Management, 1997 - JSTOR
We studied breeding songbird populations in a managed, predominantly forested
landscape, in southeastern Missouri. We determined differences in the relative abundance …

Setting conservation priorities for landbirds in the United States: the Partners in Flight approach

MF Carter, WC Hunter, DN Pashley, KV Rosenberg - The Auk, 2000 - academic.oup.com
Partners in Flight (PIF) was created in 1990 in response to concern for declining populations
of Neotropical migratory songbirds (Robbins et al. 1986, Askins et al. 1990) and in the …

Tropical ecotoxicology: status and needs

TE Lacher Jr, MI Goldstein - Environmental Toxicology and …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Ecotoxicology has focused almost exclusively on countries and ecosystems in temperate
zones. Tropical ecosystems, which combined contain as much as 75% of the global …