Consistent Nest Site Selection by Turtles across Habitats with Varying Levels of Human Disturbance

Nest Site Selection by Sea Turtles

Relation of Temperature, Moisture, Salinity, and Slope to Nest Site Selection in Loggerhead Sea Turtles

Nest site selection in reptiles can affect the fitness of the parents through the survival of their offspring because environmental factors influence embryo survivorship, hatchling quality, and sex ratio. In sea turtles, nest site selection is influenced by selective forces that drive nest placement inland and those that drive nest placement seaward. Nests deposited close to the ocean have a gr...

Nest-site selection in individual loggerhead turtles and consequences for doomed-egg relocation.

Relocation of eggs is a common strategy for conservation of declining reptilian populations around the world. If individuals exhibit consistency in their nest-site selection and if nest-site selection is a heritable trait, relocating eggs deposited in vulnerable locations may impose artificial selection that would maintain traits favoring unsuccessful nest-site selection. Conversely, if most in...

Nest-site selection and productivity of Vesper Sparrows breeding in grazed habitats

Livestock grazing in the shortgrass steppe of the Intermountain region of British Columbia may have a negative impact on ground-nesting birds, but evidence of such an impact is lacking. We examined nestsite selection and productivity of ground-nesting Vesper Sparrows (Pooecetes gramineus) across sites with different grazing histories. From 2006 to 2008, we monitored Vesper Sparrow nests and mea...

Nest site selection by Holarctic waterfowl: a multi-level review

Because of birds’ mobility, behaviour and many species’ migratory nature, they select repeatedly and spatially among habitats and have been central figures in studies of avian breeding habitat selection during the 20th and 21st centuries. The scientific literature on habitat use by breeding waterfowl has origins dating back to the writings of Charles Darwin in The Voyage of the Beagle, wherein ...