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Accounting for food availability reveals contaminant-induced breeding impairment, food-modulated contaminant effects, and endpoint-specificity of exposure indicators in free ranging avian populations
It remains unclear how sub-lethal effects of contaminants play out in relation to other stressors encountered by free-ranging …
Jabi Zabala
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Ignacio Rodríguez-Jorquera
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Joel C. Trexler
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Sophie Orzechowski
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Lindsey Garner
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Peter Frederick
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Early Breeding Failure in Birds Due to Environmental Toxins: A Potentially Powerful but Hidden Effect of Contamination
Toxin emissions and legacies are major global issues affecting many species through, among other effects, endocrine disruption and …
Jabi Zabala
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Joel C. Trexler
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Nilmini Jayasena
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Peter Frederick
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Partial migration in a subtropical wading bird in the southeastern United States
The function of migration is to allow exploitation of resources whose availability is heterogeneous in space and time. Much effort has …
Simona Picardi
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Peter C. Frederick
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Rena R. Borkhataria
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Mathieu Basille
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Nestling carcasses from colonially breeding wading birds: patterns of access and energetic relevance for a vertebrate scavenger community
Energy transfer is fundamental to ecosystem processes, affecting productivity and community structure. Large aggregations of colonially …
Wray Gabel
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Peter Frederick
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Jabi Zabala
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Invasive Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus) are novel nest predators in wading bird colonies of the Florida Everglades
Invasive Burmese pythons have been shown to have population-level effects on native mammals in southern Florida. Tens of thousands of …
Sophia C. M. Orzechowski
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Christina M. Romagosa
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Peter C. Frederick
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Variation in nestling feather mercury concentrations at individual, brood, and breeding colony levels: Implications for sampling mercury in birds
Nestling feathers are often used to monitor and estimate Hg exposure in birds. Decision-making and results of studies on effects of …
Jabi Zabala
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Ashley M. Meade
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Peter Frederick
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Environmental DNA sampling reveals high occupancy rates of invasive Burmese pythons at wading bird breeding aggregations in the central Everglades
The Burmese python (Python bivittatus) is now established as a breeding population throughout south Florida, USA. However, the extent …
Sophia C. M. Orzechowski
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Peter C. Frederick
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Robert M. Dorazio
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Margaret E. Hunter
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Non-lethal sampling of avian indicators reveals reliable geographic signals of mercury despite highly dynamic patterns of exposure in a large wetland
Mercury is a global contaminant with special relevance for aquatic food webs, where biomagnification can result in strong effects on …
Jabi Zabala
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Ignacio A. Rodriguez-Jorquera
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Sophia C. Orzechowski
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Peter Frederick
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Mercury Concentration in Nestling Feathers Better Predicts Individual Reproductive Success than Egg or Nestling Blood in a Piscivorous Bird
Piscivorous birds are at high risk of mercury exposure in aquatic food webs, and their reproductive success is sensitive to …
Jabi Zabala
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Ignacio A. Rodriguez-Jorquera
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Sophia C. Orzechowski
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Peter Frederick
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Attraction of Nesting Wading Birds to Alligators (Alligator mississippiensis). Testing the ‘Nest Protector’ Hypothesis
Ecological facilitation (mutualism and commensalism) appears to be a strong force shaping biotic communities, and may be more likely in …
Brittany F. Burtner
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Peter C. Frederick
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