Connecting foraging and roosting areas reveals how food stocks explain shorebird numbers

Communal Roosting and Foraging Behavior of Staging Sandhill Cranes

How to Keep Numbers up and Inbreeding down in Supplemented Stocks

Supplemental breeding is an intensive population management strategy wherein adults are captured from nature and spawned in controlled settings, and the resulting offspring are later released into the wild. To be effective, supplemental breeding programs require crossing strategies that maximize offspring production while maintaining genetic diversity within each supplemental year class. We use...

The past and future of food stocks

Human societies rely on food reserves and the importation of agricultural goods asmeans to copewith crop failures and associated food shortage.While food trade has been the subject of intensive investigations in recent years, food reserves remain poorly quantified. It is unclear how food stocks are changing andwhether they are declining. In this studywe use food stock records for 92 products to...

Fishy numbers for white marlin stocks.

In 1840, the English chaplain and amateur naturalist Richard Thomas Lowe published a four-line description of a proposed new species of fish. It was a billfish: a big, fast predatory fish with a prominent bill. The billfish group includes the storied marlins immortalized by Ernest Hemingway. Lowe based his description on a single specimen collected off the coast of Madeira, Portugal, where he h...

Roosting and Foraging Social Structure of the Endangered Indiana Bat (Myotis sodalis)

Social dynamics are an important but poorly understood aspect of bat ecology. Herein we use a combination of graph theoretic and spatial approaches to describe the roost and social network characteristics and foraging associations of an Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) maternity colony in an agricultural landscape in Ohio, USA. We tracked 46 bats to 50 roosts (423 total relocations) and collected 2...