Empirical evidence for source–sink populations: a review on occurrence, assessments and implications

RD Furrer, G Pasinelli - Biological Reviews, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Assessing the role of local populations in a landscape context has become increasingly
important in the fields of conservation biology and ecology. A growing number of studies …

Local population collapse of Ross's and lesser snow geese driven by failing recruitment and diminished philopatry

MD Weegman, RT Alisauskas, DK Kellett, Q Zhao… - Oikos, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamics of free‐ranging animal populations can result from complex interplays of survival,
recruitment and movement. Yet incomplete understanding of demography impedes …

Should I breed or should I go? Manipulating individual state during migration influences breeding decisions in a long‐lived bird species

T Grandmont, P Fast, I Grentzmann… - Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Documentation of carry‐over effects (COEs), defined as effects resulting from events that
occurred in a previous time period, has largely been observational and understanding of …

Geese as keystone species in the Low Arctic of central Canada: the Karrak Lake Research Station

RT Alisauskas, DK Kellett, G Samelius… - Arctic …, 2024 - cdnsciencepub.com
True abundance of lesser snow (Anser caerulescens caerulescens, Linnaeus 1758) and
Ross's geese (Anser rossii, Cassin 1861, collectively referred to as “light geese”, in North …

Distributional shifts of wintering midcontinent greater white‐fronted geese

CB Moore, DC Osborne, RJ Askren… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Despite a historically large degree of philopatry to the Gulf Coastal Plains wintering area in
the United States and Mexico, the midcontinent population of greater white‐fronted geese …

[BOOK][B] Surveys of nesting lesser snow geese and Ross's geese in Arctic Canada, 2002-2009

RH Kerbes, KM Meeres, RT Alisauskas - 2014 - pcoa.ca
Aerial photographic and visual surveys of colonies of lesser snow geese, Chen
caerulescens caerulescens,(hereafter, snow geese) and Ross's geese, Chen rossii, were …

Subpopulation contributions to a breeding metapopulation of migratory arctic herbivores: survival, fecundity and asymmetric dispersal

RT Alisauskas, AM Calvert, JO Leafloor… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Estimates of demographic parameters for lesser snow geese Anser caerulescens
caerulescens have become critical to understand ecosystem change in northern Canada …

Declining survival of black brant from subarctic and arctic breeding areas

AG Leach, DH Ward, JS Sedinger… - The Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Since the mid 1990s, the number of black brant (Branta bernicla nigricans; brant) nests on
the Yukon‐Kuskokwim Delta (YKD), Alaska, USA, the historically predominant breeding …

Survival, harvest, and population size of Rio Grande wild turkeys in Texas

BR Buckley, JB Hardin… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Use of band recovery data combined with estimates of hunter harvests provides a
foundation for estimation of abundance and population trajectory for a variety of wildlife …

Effect of neckband color on survival and recovery rates of Ross's geese

JH Caswell, RT Alisauskas… - The Journal of Wildlife …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Colored neckbands are known to reduce survival rates of geese, but the underlying cause
for lower survival is unknown. We tested the hypothesis that hunters cause this lower …