Agricultural practices have intensified during the past 50 yr, increasing crop production and
altering the Canadian prairie landscape by removing or degrading uncropped habitats …

Many raptor species are considered to be generalists, taking a range of prey species.
However, longitudinal dietary records are often scarce, although necessary for …

The exposure to persistent pollutants such as organochlorine compounds (OCs) or metals
has been associated with declines in top predator populations, which can accumulate high …

Specialist predators are generally negatively impacted by habitat change. Predators that
inhabit transformed areas are usually forced to diversify their diet and this departure away …

Predation can shape community structure, so understanding the diet of predators is an
important aspect of ecology. Stable isotope analysis using Bayesian mixing models is a …

Some domestic waste disposal sites (DWDS) accumulate enormous amounts of food that
humans discard. This food resource is exploited by different species whose population …

Farmland bird species have suffered dramatic declines in recent decades, especially in
Mediterranean areas. The intensification of agricultural practices has led to reduced …

Human activities cause changes to occur in the environment that affect resource availability
for wildlife. The increase in the human population of cities has led to a rise in the amount of …

Cameras at nest sites are becoming a common means for quantifying nestling diet, but there
are two problems associated with this method: food items delivered to nestlings often cannot …

Inclement weather can negatively affect breeding birds directly by exposure to factors such
as severe temperature and rainfall, or indirectly by reducing food supply. During a three …