Species extinctions have defined the global biodiversity crisis, but extinction begins with loss
in abundance of individuals that can result in compositional and functional changes of …

Concerns about the impact of plastics pollution on the environment have been growing
since the 1970s. Marine debris has reportedly entangled and (or) been ingested by 914 …

Shorebirds are declining to a greater extent than many other avian taxa around the world. In
North America, shorebirds, along with aerial insectivores and grassland birds, have some of …

Arctic-breeding geese are at record high population levels and are causing significant
changes to some of their breeding and staging habitats. These changes could influence …

Correlations between transequatorial migratory bird routes and bipolar biogeographic
disjunctions in bryophytes suggest that disjunctions between northern and southern high …

Executive summary This report provides an update of population estimates for the 37
species of migratory shorebirds in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF) that regularly …

Umbrella species are rarely selected systematically from a range of candidate species. On
sandy beaches, birds that nest on the upper beach or in dunes are threatened globally and …

Abstract Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla) populations have undergone significant
declines at core nonbreeding sites in northeastern South America. Breeding populations …

Climate change in the Arctic is leading to earlier summers, creating a phenological
mismatch between the hatching of insectivorous birds and the availability of their …

Ecological mismatches between reproductive events and seasonal resource peaks are
frequently proposed to be a key driver of population dynamics resulting from global climate …