Some Demographic Aspects of the Cape Cod Population of Common Terns (Sterna hirundo)

Austin, O. L.

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“…A suitable method should provide ways for testing various hypotheses about recruitment, including environmental effects, and allow comparisons between groups of individuals. In most previous studies (Austin and Austin 1956, Harrington 1974, Williams and Joanen 1974, Lloyd and Perrins 1977, Wooler and Coulson 1977, Duncan 1978, Finney and Cooke 1978, Harris 1981, Coulson et al 1982, Nelson 1983, Serventy and Curry 1984, Rattiste and Lilleleht 1986, Weimerskirch and Jouventin 1987, Gratto 1988, Brooke 1990, Spendelow 1991, Thompson et al 1994, recruitment has been equated with the age distribution of first-time breeders, without correction for variation in survival rate and/or probability of capture. However, a bird observed breeding for the first time might have bred previously.…”

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Local Recruitment in the Greater Flamingo: A New Approach Using Capture–mark–recapture Data

Pradel

Johnson

Viallefont

et al. 1997

Ecology

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Although the establishment of new individuals in the breeding component of a population is an essential feature of population regulation, only a few attempts have been made to test biological hypotheses about recruitment. Most previous studies rely on ad hoc calculations or are flawed with unwarranted assumptions about survival. We use a recently developed approach, based on capture–mark–recapture, in which analysis of local recruitment is similar to a time‐reversed analysis of survival. The basic data set consists of capture histories viewed in reverse order, with initial capture at year of birth, and subsequent observations corresponding to years when the animal has bred. The model considers two essential components, the probability for any breeding individual to reproduce for the first time (β, the probability of first reproduction) and the probability of recapture (p), both conditional on survival. Contrary to previous attempts at modeling recruitment, the present approach does not assume an age at which breeding propensity stabilizes to a maximum value. The flexibility achieved allows the comparison of recruitment among groups within a population and also allows one to consider the effects of environmental variables, as well as interactions between such effects. Practically, the procedure starts from a global model, based upon the a priori knowledge of the biology of the species, and assesses its fit. Then more parsimonious models are selected using Akaike’s Information Criterion and likelihood ratio tests. Finally, maximum likelihood estimates of model parameters are obtained with estimates of precision. We used a modified version of program RELEASE for goodness‐of‐fit tests, and program SURGE for iterative model fitting and the computation of likelihood ratio tests. We illustrate the method with the study of local recruitment of Greater Flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber roseus) in the Camargue (southern France) between 1984 and 1994. We found additive effects of age and year to affect recruitment. Breeding propensity increased with age. Recruitment was noticeably higher in the year following an increase in mortality rate due to a particularly severe winter. Long‐lasting effects of this increased mortality on recruitment were observed in the three following years. There was no evidence for an effect of sex or cohort (year of birth) on recruitment. However, sex, as well as time and age, affected recapture rates. We discuss the various advantages and limitations of the model for the study of local recruitment in long‐lived species and mention some potential developments.

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Local Recruitment in the Greater Flamingo: A New Approach Using Capture–mark–recapture Data

Pradel

Johnson

Viallefont

et al. 1997

Ecology

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“…Present studies indicate that marine birds bond monogamously (e.g., Richdale, 1951;Austin and Austin, 1956;Coulson, 1966;cf. Chapter 5), are relatively long-lived, and generally exhibit delayed maturity (Lack, 1968). With the exception of murres (Tuck, 1961), razorbills, and some murrelets (Sealy, 1973), seabird hatchlings exhibit altricial through semiprecocial modes of development.…”

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Parental Investments by Seabirds at the Breeding Area with Emphasis on Northern Gannets, Morus bassanus

Montevecchi

Porter

1980

Behavior of Marine Animals

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“…This is characteristic of the majority of species of terns (Cramp, 1985) but for only a few species of gulls (e.g., Kharitonov and Zubakin, 1984). Species nesting in intermediate habitats develop strong site tenacity when the colony site is stable, although a small proportion of adults continue to change sites (e.g., Austin and Austin, 1956;Southern, 1977). When conditions deteriorate, the colony site is distinguished by flux and desertions, and high levels of group adherence develop in older birds.…”

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Current Ornithology

1988

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A Continuation Order Plan is available for this series. A continuation order will bring delivery of each new volume immediately upon publication. Volumes are billed only upon actual shipment. For further information please contact the publisher.All rights reserved 84-640616 AACR 2 MARC-S No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher ISBN 978-1-4615-6789-9 ISBN 978-1-4615-6787-5 (eBook) PREFACEVolume 5 of this series continues its coverage of currently active research fields in ornithology. Because an editor can never be a disinterested observer of his or her own editorial efforts, any claim for superiority of this volume is not without conflict of interest. Even so, Volume 5 has certain merits that even a parent should acknowledge, and I find the current chapters not merely timely and authoritative but compelling in their demand for a reader's attention. Wolfgang and Roswitha Wiltschko provide a perceptive review of magnetic orientation in birds, a piece dedicated to Fritz Merkel, the pioneer in studies of magnetic orientation. Sergei Kharitonov and Douglas Siegel-Causey are concerned with the behavioral ecology of seabird coloniality, emphasizing their field experiences in the USSR and the United States. Ted Miller examines the application of studies of bird behavior to comparative biology, pursuing the interface of behavior and evolutionary biology adumbrated by Konrad Lorenz in the 1930s.Jeremy Raynor gives us a summary of the work over the past decade on bird flight, which is not, by turns, as complex or as simple as we had formerly believed. Carrol Henderson describes recent developments in nongame bird conservation, based on his pioneering work in the State of Minnesota. Alan Kamil discusses optimal experimental design for research in ornithology, a field in which experimental work is frequently difficult to pursue.Frank Rohwer and Michael Anderson assess the behavioral ecology of waterfowl reproduction, and Cynthia Bluhm approaches much the same subject from a different angle, summarizing modern, field-based vii viii PREFACE

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Some Demographic Aspects of the Cape Cod Population of Common Terns (Sterna hirundo)

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Local Recruitment in the Greater Flamingo: A New Approach Using Capture–mark–recapture Data

Local Recruitment in the Greater Flamingo: A New Approach Using Capture–mark–recapture Data

Parental Investments by Seabirds at the Breeding Area with Emphasis on Northern Gannets, Morus bassanus

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