Structural elements for breeding such as nests are key resources for the conservation of bird populations. This is especially true when structural elements require a specific and restricted habitat, or if the construction of nests is costly in time and energy. The availability of nesting-platforms is influenced by nest creation and persistence. In a Mediterranean forest in southeastern Spain, n...

Abstract Background Electrocution and collisions on power lines are among the leading causes of non-natural mortality for birds. Power exponentially increasing, particularly in developing countries, but mitigation strategies to prevent bird questionable. Mongolia combines a recently increased line network, an abundant raptor population, dangerous crossarm configuration habitat with no natural p...

We prove some results of the form “r residually irreducible and residually modular implies r is modular,” where r is a suitable continuous odd 2-dimensional 2-adic representation of the absolute Galois group of Q. These results are analogous to those obtained by A. Wiles, R. Taylor, F. Diamond, and others for p-adic representations in the case when p is odd; some extra work is required to overc...

There will be three objectives in Chenevier’s lectures: (1) construction of the eigenvarieties of definite unitary groups of any rank. (2) study of the local and global properties of the families of Galois representations on the eigenvarieties. (3) applications to standard conjectures relating arithmetic L-functions at integers and associated Selmer groups. Part (3) (lectures 6, 7) would be the...