Sea-level rise and the emergence of a keystone grazer alter the geomorphic evolution and ecology of southeast US salt marshes

SM Crotty, C Ortals, TM Pettengill… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Keystone species have large ecological effects relative to their abundance and have been
identified in many ecosystems. However, global change is pervasively altering …

Sea ice predicts long‐term trends in Adélie penguin population growth, but not annual fluctuations: Results from a range‐wide multiscale analysis

DT Iles, H Lynch, R Ji, C Barbraud… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the scales at which environmental variability affects populations is critical for
projecting population dynamics and species distributions in rapidly changing environments …

Temporal changes in reproductive success and optimal breeding decisions in a long-distance migratory bird

C Reséndiz-Infante, G Gauthier - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Many avian migrants have not adjusted breeding phenology to climate warming resulting in
negative consequences for their offspring. We studied seasonal changes in reproductive …

From individual to population level: Temperature and snow cover modulate fledging success through breeding phenology in greylag geese (Anser anser)

D Frigerio, P Sumasgutner, K Kotrschal, S Kleindorfer… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Local weather conditions may be used as environmental cues by animals to optimize their
breeding behaviour, and could be affected by climate change. We measured associations …

Projected population consequences

D Iles, S Jenouvrier - Effects Clim Change Birds, 2019 - books.google.com
Many atmospheric and oceanic climate processes will change in the coming century (IPCC
2013). These processes affect vital rates of individuals (such as survival, growth …

Liberalized harvest regulations have not affected overabundant Snow Geese in Northern Manitoba

DN Koons, LM Aubry, RF Rockwell - The Condor, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Large amounts of money are spent each year to control overabundant species that imperil
biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across the globe. Lesser Snow Geese (Anser …

Growth of greater white‐fronted goose goslings relates to population dynamics at multiple scales

TF Fondell, BW Meixell, PL Flint - The Journal of Wildlife …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The abundance of greater white‐fronted geese (Anser albifrons frontalis) on the Arctic
Coastal Plain (ACP) of northern Alaska, USA, has more than tripled since the late 1990s; …