Ecology of freshwater shore zones

DL Strayer, SEG Findlay - Aquatic sciences, 2010 - Springer
Freshwater shore zones are among the most ecologically valuable parts of the planet, but
have been heavily damaged by human activities. Because the management and …

A systematic review of forest bird occurrence in North American forest fragments and the built environment

JMJ Archer, ME Hostetler, G Acomb, R Blair - Landscape and Urban …, 2019 - Elsevier
Urban decision-makers typically cannot utilize empirical bird studies to create bird-friendly
landscape designs because academic results are often in a format that is not easily …

The conservation value of urban riparian areas for landbirds during spring migration: land cover, scale, and vegetation effects

DN Pennington, J Hansel, RB Blair - Biological Conservation, 2008 - Elsevier
Urbanization changes bird community structure during the breeding season but little is
known about its effects on migrating birds. We examined patterns of habitat use by birds at …

Stopover habitat along the shoreline of northern Lake Huron, Michigan: emergent aquatic insects as a food resource for spring migrating landbirds

RJ Smith, FR Moore, CA May - The Auk, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Recent work in Michigan's eastern Upper Peninsula suggests that terrestrial areas bordering
northern Lake Huron provide important stopover habitat for spring migrating landbirds …

Migrating birds reorient toward land at dawn over the Great Lakes, USA

KM Archibald, JJ Buler, JA Smolinsky… - The Auk …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Most landbirds migrate at night and typically make landfall in suitable stopover habitat
before dawn. However, when birds find themselves over large water bodies at dawn, they …

Contribution of emergent aquatic insects to refueling in spring migrant songbirds

LS Macdade, PG Rodewald, KA Hatch - The Auk, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Refueling by spring migrant landbirds is an important determinant of arrival timing and, thus,
should also affect acquisition of high-quality territories and mates. Spring migrants can …

Wrack line formation and composition on shores of a large Alpine lake: The role of littoral topography and wave exposure

W Ostendorp, H Hofmann, JP Armbruster - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Wrack lines are a key formation along shorelines that provide organic matter and bring
ecological diversity to the local environment. Although wrack line formation has been …

Associations between sex, age and species-specific climate sensitivity in migration

C Jarjour, B Frei, KH Elliott - Animal Migration, 2017 - degruyter.com
Weather often plays a key role in migration timing, and temporal shifts over the past century
have been heavily researched and linked to climate change. Much research is however …

Choice of foraging habitat by Northern Flickers reflects changes in availability of their ant prey linked to ambient temperature

KL Wiebe, EA Gow - Ecoscience, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Foraging theory suggests animals should prefer habitats with a greater density of prey, but
few have investigated whether birds change foraging habitats according to short-term …

Distribution of migratory landbirds along the northern Lake Huron shoreline

DN Ewert, MJ Hamas, RJ Smith… - The Wilson Journal …, 2011 - meridian.allenpress.com
The distribution of landbirds during migration in forested landscapes of eastern North
America is poorly known. We describe (1) the distribution of landbirds in northern white …