Abstract Barrett, RT, Camphuysen, CJ, Anker-Nilssen, T., Chardine, JW, Furness, RW,
Garthe, S., Hüppop, O., Leopold, MF, Montevecchi, WA, and Veit, RR 2007. Diet studies of …

ABSTRACT Urban-nesting by Herring Larus argentatus and Lesser Blackbacked Gulls L.
fuscus in Britain began in the 1940s, but became established as a national phenom enon in …

Although density‐dependent regulation of population growth is thought to be relatively
widespread in nature, density‐independent models are often used to project the population …

There is increasing evidence that large scale climate variation influences reproductive
parameters of seabirds, but fewer studies have investigated possible effects on adult …

Detecting senescence in wild populations and estimating its strength raise three challenges.
First, in the presence of individual heterogeneity in survival probability, the proportion of high …

Dit proefschrift is het resultaat van een vergelijkend onderzoek naar de populatiedynamica
van Zilvermeeuwen en Kleine Mantelmeeuwen in de westelijke Waddenzee, opgezet zodat …

The frequency at which individuals breed is an important parameter in population, as well as
in evolutionary, studies. However, when nonbreeding individuals are absent from the study …

1. At one colony of short‐tailed shearwaters in Bass Strait, Australia, all birds breeding have
been recorded individually each year for over 50 years. Among individuals known to be …

A central issue in life history theory is how organisms trade off current and future
reproduction. A variety of organisms exhibit intermittent breeding, meaning sexually mature …

Adult individuals that do not breed in a given year occur in a wide range of natural
populations. However, such nonbreeders are often ignored in theoretical and empirical …