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Using long-term datasets to assess the impacts of neonicotinoids on farmland bird populations in England
... on bird populations, but these studies were either limited to a single species or neglected to analyse specific exposure pathways in conjunction with observed population ...Using bird abundance data, ...
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Trends and Fluctuations in Bird Populations on the Tundra at Cambridge Bay, Nunavut
... in bird numbers in the Arctic can be influenced by a variety of physical and biolog- ical factors: temporary changes in the availability of food and/or nesting sites (determined by snow and ice coverage), timing ...
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Using long-term datasets to assess the impacts of neonicotinoids on farmland bird populations in England
... Our exposure categories did not predict the magnitude of estimates for NN-related population change across the set of species included in the study; results here suggest that dietary exposure to NNs via treated seed and ...
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Monitoring terrestrial bird populations on Tiritiri Matangi Island, Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand, 1987–2010
... Abstract: Tiritiri Matangi Island is a Scientific Reserve located in the Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand. In 1986, two years after the start of a ten-year planting programme on the island, members of the Ornithological Society ...
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Management Improvement of the Agmon Wetlands System (Hula Valley, Israel) Aimed at the Enhancement of Bird Populations and Kinneret Protection
... Species diversity of aquatic birds and water levels were highest in spring and lowest in summer-autumn. Dif- ferences between seasons were significant for water-bird diversity (p < 0.000) and species richness ...
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Impacts of logging on autumn bird populations in the southern forests of Tasmania
... In contrast no significant differences were recorded in the numbers of individuals table IA or species table IB between regrowth forests, resulting from wildfire or selective logging wit[r] ...
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Genomic associations with bill length and disease reveal drift and selection across island bird populations
... bottlenecked populations (Spurgin et ...pipit populations have a high degree of variation in avian malaria prevalence, and this variation is consistent over time and con- strained by island biogeographic ...
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Aerosolized Coal Fly Ash: A Previously Unrecognized Primary Factor in the Catastrophic Global Demise of Bird Populations and Species
... The catastrophic loss of birds in recent decades parallels the global decline of insects in recent decades [25,26]. Most passerine birds depend on insects for food, especially during the breeding season, and declining ...
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Optimal sampling frequency and timing of threatened tropical bird populations: a modeling approach
... Simulated akalat population size for four monthly samples per year over five years 302. including one breeding sample for (a) immature, (b) sub-adult, and (c) full adult akalats[r] ...
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Integrating paleoecology and genetics of bird populations in two sky island archipelagos
... Until now, evidence for postglacial fragmentation of sky islands has eluded intraspecific studies of poorly dispers- ing sky-island organisms. In a study of sky-island jumping spiders (Habronattus pugillis), Masta [11] ...
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Bird species diversity and abundance before and after eradication of possums and wallabies on Rangitoto Island, Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand
... increased bird populations (Spurr, 1994, 2000; Veltman, ...of bird population increases is likely to come from offshore islands where the pests have been eradicated, rather than from the main islands ...
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Modelling the European Farmland Bird Indicator in response to forecast land-use change in Europe
... farmland bird indicator at the country level for each land-use ...farmland bird populations. It was assumed that changes in farmland bird populations are likely to have been driven by ...
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Current analogues of future climate indicate the likely response of a sensitive montane tropical avifauna to a warming world
... species amenable to testing, excluding some taxa at both extremes of the thermal gradient in the study region, as temperature responses in these species tended to be identified by the HOF approach as having monotonic or ...
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Local power and land use: spatial implications for local energy development
... on bird populations (ecological impacts), landscape visual quality (aesthetic impacts) and disruption to food supply from transforming agricultural land to biofuels (direct land use impacts) are widely ...
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Diet and impacts of brushtail possum populations across an invasion front in South Westland, New Zealand
... With the exception of some alpine areas and parts of South Westland and Fiordland, brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) occur throughout the main islands of New Zealand, and are generally considered to be a serious ...
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Clinical Nurse Leader as Outcomes Manager in the Emergency Department: Redesigning the Triage Process to Reduce the Left Without Being Seen (LWBS) Rate
... established populations outside of urban areas can re-establish urban areas once viable habitat is ...on bird populations and actively creating and implementing policies that reduce their impact on ...
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Cultural evolution of killer whale calls: background, mechanisms and consequences
... other populations, this phenomenon can be developed even further: for example, Norwegian killer whales produce compound calls consisting from different combinations of syllables (Strager, 1995; Shapiro et ...
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The relationship of telomere length to baseline corticosterone levels in nestlings of an altricial passerine bird in natural populations
... wild populations, together with experimental studies [50, 51, 66], goes in the same direction and sug- gest a strong association between stress (baseline CORT and/or oxidative stress) and telomere length, we ...
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... and bird feeders, and put out water for birds in their ...from bird and biodiversity experts on development projects, including hydropower dams and infrastructure such as road construction, power lines and ...
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A Survey of Wild Birds Trading in the Beijing Bird Markets
... that bird farming exists as a hobby and is deeply rooted in the hearts of the older generations in ...certain bird species, it also restricts the freedom of these wild birds to thrive in its natural ...the ...
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