Publication Type: Scientific
Identifying and understanding why traits make species vulnerable to changing climatic conditions remain central problems in evolutionary and applied ecology.
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Waterfowl
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Among temperate-breeding birds, offspring survival and reproductive success are often inversely related to timing of breeding.
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Waterfowl
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The relative contributions of habitat structure and composition to biodiversity are often scale-dependent. Although bird communities in boreal forest have been largely altered and threatened by forest harvesting, bird habitat selection in this ecosystem has not been fully understood.
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Forestry
Publication Type: Scientific
Birds meet the energy and nutrient demands of egg formation by using dietary (exogenous) sources, somatic (endogenous) nutrients, or combinations of both. Therefore, understanding plasticity in resource acquisition and the allocation strategies that are used is important for predicting how ecosystem changes across a species- range could affect vital rates.
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