Density‐dependent dispersal in birds and mammals

E Matthysen - Ecography, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Density‐dependent dispersal can be caused by various mechanisms, from competition
inducing individuals to emigrate (positive density‐dependence) to social crowding effects …

[BOOK][B] Bird migration

I Newton - 2010 - nora.nerc.ac.uk
The phenomenon of bird migration has fascinated people from time immemorial. The
arrivals and departures of different species marked the seasons, heralding spring and …

Movements and habitat connectivity of New Zealand forest birds

J Innes, CM Miskelly, DP Armstrong, N Fitzgerald… - New Zealand Journal of …, 2022 - JSTOR
New Zealand's original forested landscape has been greatly fragmented since human
arrival, limiting connectivity and habitat quality for forest-dependent fauna. We review the …

Cultural psychology of immigrants: An introduction

R Mahalingam - Cultural psychology of immigrants, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
Many of us writing in this volume are first-, second-, or at least third-generation North
Americans. In my case, my mother emigrated from Scotland with my grandmother to the …

Factors affecting breeding dispersal in the facultatively colonial lesser kestrel: individual experience vs. conspecific cues

D Serrano, JL Tella, MG Forero… - Journal of Animal …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 The role of individual experience vs. the use of conspecific cues on breeding
dispersal decisions have seldom been determined in colonial birds. We studied causes of …

The effect of weather on lesser kestrel breeding success: can climate change explain historical population declines?

C Rodríguez, J Bustamante - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2003 - JSTOR
1. We model the effect of annual weather conditions on lesser kestrel Falco naumanni
breeding success in South-western Spain. Models indicate that rainfall is a good predictor of …

Causes and fitness consequences of natal dispersal in a population of black kites

MG Forero, JA Donázar, F Hiraldo - Ecology, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Natal dispersal is of central interest when determining demography and genetic structure of
populations and managing endangered species with fragmented distributions. However …

Higher fitness for philopatric than for immigrant males in a semi‐isolated population of great reed warblers

S Bensch, D Hasselquist, B Nielsen, B Hansson - Evolution, 1998 - academic.oup.com
To compare the fitness of philopatric and immigrant individuals we examined the lifetime
reproductive success of 116 male and 137 female great reed warblers. The study was …

Extensive polymorphism and geographical variation at a positively selected MHC class II B gene of the lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni)

M Alcaide, SV Edwards, JJ Negro, D Serrano… - Molecular …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the selective forces that shape genetic variation in natural populations
remains a high priority in evolutionary biology. Genes at the major histocompatibility …

Geographical variation in wolf spider dispersal behaviour is related to landscape structure

D Bonte, JV Borre, L Lens, JP Maelfait - Animal behaviour, 2006 - Elsevier
Theoretical studies suggest that mechanisms underlying habitat and population structure
are important for sha** inter-and intraspecific variation in dispersal behaviour. Empirical …