Bird Population
Using habitat-specific population trends to evaluate the consistency of the effect of species traits on bird population change
... This is a repository copy of Using habitat-specific population trends to evaluate the consistency of the effect of species traits on bird population change.. White Rose Research Online U[r] ...
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Comparative micro-epidemiology of pathogenic avian influenza virus outbreaks in a wild bird population
... Whether age correlates with protection against HPAIV is difficult to study in wild bird populations, as population age structures are rarely known and HPAIV infection is typically rare. Previous exposure to ...
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Response of a reintroduced bird population to rat reinvasion and eradication
... In contrast, the robins experienced a sharp decline in their survival rates immediately after the application of poison, and robins were observed eating the poison bait. Taken together, the results of our study suggest ...
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Complex Phenomena in Social and Financial Systems: From Bird Population Growth to the Dynamics of the Mutual Fund Industry
... breeding bird populations, the size of ...from bird populations, firms, and mutual funds and show that our predictions match the data well, in several respects: Our theory results in a much better collapse ...
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Multivariate selection and intersexual genetic constraints in a wild bird population
... and univariate quantitative genetic parameters for sex-specific morphological traits in a wild.. population of great tits.[r] ...
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Local human population increase in the non breeding areas of long distance migrant bird species is only weakly associated with their declines, even for synanthropic species
... human population change operating on the non-breeding ground was relatively ...human population change is less ...human population change affecting a breeding bird population: smaller ...
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Studies on the physico chemical analysis of Pichavaram Mangroves, Tamilnadu, India
... The water quality parameters such as dissolved oxygen, salinity, silicate, nitrate, phosphate and soil pH were having significant impact on the water bird populations. Several reports advocate that the water ...
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The Recent Establishment of North American H10 Lineage Influenza Viruses in Australian Wild Waterfowl and the Evolution of Australian Avian Influenza Viruses
... wild bird population and are continuing to reassort with other circulating avian influenza virus lineages, resulting in new gene constellations such as those detected in farmed poultry in Qld in ...
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Developing population models for guiding reintroductions of extirpated bird species back to the New Zealand mainland
... reintroduced population, hence emigration effectively lowers the survival rate of the reintroduced population regardless of the fate of the dispersing ...
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The Bird Is the Word
... of bird vocalization have long been studied, but com- parisons with humans have only more recently been studied, after the realization that, even though their vocal apparatuses are different, there is ample room ...
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Estimating breeding bird survey trends and annual indices for Canada: how do the new hierarchical Bayesian estimates differ from previous estimates?
... of population change, but to the data that were sampled, ...of population change is zero, there is less than a 5% chance of observing the data that were ...the population has declined more than 50% ...
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The Night Bird
... night bird camouflaged in the dark and dappled grass, whistled ...wide-eyed bird pausing, listening for another whistle to break the night and ensure it that it was not ...
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Manitoba’s endangered alvars: an initial description of their extent and status
... steep population declines in North America (North American Bird Conservation Initiative 2016), on grass- land alvars; Eastern Whip-poor-will (Antrostomus vo- ciferus) and Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles ...
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Fecundity and development rate of the bird cherry oat aphid, Rhopalosiphum padi (L) (Hom : Aphididae) on six wheat cultivars
... The bird cherry-oat aphid, Rhopalosiphum padi (L) (Hom., Aphididae), has recently become one of the most important pests of cereals in some Euro- pean countries including England, Scandinavian countries and some ...
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Forest bird mortality and baiting practices in New Zealand aerial 1080 operations from 1986 to 2009
... native bird species, of which four were kiwi (Apteryx ...observe bird deaths in small samples may lead to weak inference about zero mortality across a population, most surveys in the review did not ...
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The science of bird conservation
... studies, population surveys, and studies of habitat associations form the basic currency of conservation ecology; the results may not always make it into top- rated journals but study design, implementation and ...
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Biomechanics of bird flight
... uncertainty because drag coefficients obtained from isolated bird bodies vary over 400%, from ~0.1 in varnished, footless, starling carcasses (Maybury, 2000) to ~0.4 in frozen waterfowl (Pennycuick et al., 1988). ...
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The response of avian foraging guilds and plant communities to prescribed fire in the ponderosa pine forests of the U.S. Southwest
... rehabilitate bird habitat. While methods for assessing prescribed burn effects on bird demographics have been developed (Randall-Parker and Miller 2002), little is known of fire effects on bird ...
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Thomas Bird Mosher
... lishing business, who published inexpensive books so beautiful that they are not inappropriately spoken of along ,vith those of the famous Keln1scott Press of Wil- liam Morris, and who a[r] ...
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The Bird Girls of Ireland
... Moore's associates in the Irish Literary Theatre, had read the manuscript as early as 1901; Moore knew and praised other of Synge's nondramatic and dramatic work of the period; he was no[r] ...
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