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Florida Turkey Nest Site Selection and Success
... Female Florida wild turkey microhabitat selection was for the presence of dense lat- eral cover in the form of shrubs. This manifested primarily in increased saw palmetto cover and palm stem density. Other researchers ...
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Eastern wild turkey nest site selection in two frequently burned pine savannas
... turkey nest site selection, especially in frequently burned (≤3 year fire-return interval) pine ...influence nest site selection; rather, they evaluated effects of nest site and ...
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A high incidence of non-cavity nesting in an introduced population of House Sparrows suggests that the species should not be constrained by cavity-nest site availability
... to nest in both native and invasive ...Recent nest site quantifications from the House Sparrow’s native environment are necessary to enable comparative studies to clarify whether nesting flexibility ...
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Adaptation or ecological trap? Altered nest-site selection by Reed Parrotbills after an extreme flood
... Unpredictable flooding during bird breeding season would devastate all the offspring due to a lack of escape capacity. For example, flash flooding in the lower Mis- sissippi River destroyed all interior Least Tern ...
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Nesting site selection of Temnothorax congruus from Japanese broad-leave forests: a trade-off between nest site quality and distance from sympatric Crematogaster teranishii colonies
... Three types of artificial nesting sites were made from black-colored plastic drinking straws (hereafter referred to as “straws”): “Straw A”, 50 mm in length, 6 mm in diameter, with en- trances at both ends; “Straw B”, 50 ...
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Nest site preference depends on the relative density of conspecifics and heterospecifics in wild birds
... chosen nest site reflect the preference of the tutor, giving information about the value of that nest site itself, but in our case the nest site characteristic was completely ...
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Greater Scaup, Aythya marila , Nest Site Characteristics on Grassy Island, New Brunswick
... on nest site selection; however, the presence of grazing should be recognized in ecological or conservation implications generated from our ...that nest site habitat of Greater Scaup nesting ...
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The effects of patch shape and connectivity on nest site selection and reproductive success of the Indigo Bunting
... assessed nest-level vegetation characteristics using an adaptation of the BBIRD Program protocol (Martin et ...each nest as the center point, I delineated a 5-m radius circle ...preferred nest sites, ...
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Evaluation of nest site preferences of a nest dismantler, the Hair-crested Drongo (Dicrurus hottentottus) in Dongzhai National Nature Reserve of central China
... the nest-site competi- tion hypothesis of the nest-dismantling behavior given by Li et ...for nest sites on both local and landscape ...influence nest-site selection, breeding ...
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The nest site lottery: How selectively neutral density dependent growth suppression induces frequency dependent selection
... the lifespan timescale, not the population dynamic timescale like r. Despite its simplified form our model can be a useful illustrative example for this problem. How can we use a lifespan perspective in our approach? At ...
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Does nest site availability limit the density of hole nesting birds in small woodland patches?
... The nest site limitation hypothesis did not explain the lack of Flycatchers in small patches and only with some hesitation that of the two Tit ...of nest sites for the avoidance of small habitat is- ...
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Local termination criteria for Stochastic Diffusion Search : a comparison with the behaviour of ant nest-site selection
... home nest cavity is damaged or degraded, scouts search for new nest ...a nest is judged as unsuitable, a scout continues searching; if a nest is assessed as suitable by a scouting ant (Scout ...
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Nest site characteristics of cavity-nesting birds on a small island, in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada
... new nest sites; the island was divided into four quadrants and four to six observers would spend several hours mov- ing slowly throughout them, watching and listening for cavity nesting ...the nest ...
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Thermal biology and nest site selection in the bee 'Halictus rubicundus' (Hymenoptera : Halictidae)
... the nest-site was highly predictable from ambient temperature and light intensity; with predictions during a single day being more accurate than those combining several days throughout the ...
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Sensory coding of nest site value in honeybee swarms
... that nest-site scouts show decay in their dance response to a nest site, decreasing the number of dance circuits produced per return to the swarm cluster ...of nest- site scouts, ...
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Change in nest site and population size of great cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo) in relation to different Ardeidae species in inland breeding sites in Korea
... breeding site (e.g. sharing nest trees), and the interactions among these breeding populations can affect the breeding period, behaviour, and habitat selection (Rosenberger 2015; Lee ...selecting ...
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No evidence for UV-based nest-site selection in sticklebacks
... examine nest-site prefer- ences in fish and in particular in three-spined sticklebacks with respect to different environmental ...their nest in. UV radiation therefore seems to have no influence on ...
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Nest predators, nest-site selection and nest success of the Emei Shan Liocichla (Liocichla omeiensis), a vulnerable babbler endemic to southwestern China
... its nest predators, nest-site selection and nest success at the Laojunshan National Nature Reserve in Sichuan, China in order to identify the precise nesting-habitat requirements of the ...
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Old nest material functions as an informative cue in making nest-site selection decisions in the European Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)
... tate nest-site selection in secondary cavity-nesting ...old nest material could provide particularly precise information on previous breeding history because it integrates several poten- tial cues ...
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Nest-site fidelity and breeding dispersal by Common Tailorbirds in a tropical forest
... of nest-site selection and breeding success more ...ideal nest-site; however, we observed that, no matter whether their nests were preyed upon or succeeded dur- ing the previous year or the ...
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