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J. M. Ward, Auteur ; J. D. Blount, Auteur ; G. D. Ruxton, Auteur ; D. C. Houston, AuteurSince Buxton's (1923) observation that many animals inhabiting desert environments exhibit black pelage, various hypotheses have been proposed to explain the evolutionary origins of this phenomenon. In this review, these hypotheses are examined [...]
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E. Adahl, Auteur ; J. Lindstrom, Auteur ; G. D. Ruxton, Auteur ; K. E. Arnold, Auteur ; T. Begg, AuteurIntraspecific brood parasites lay their eggs in the nests of conspecifics. There are a number of methods for detecting intraspecific brood parasitism (IBP) in birds based on egg morphology. Here we test Eadie's (1989) method, which calculates th[...]
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A. McGowan, Auteur ; W. Cresswell, Auteur ; G. D. Ruxton, AuteurWe studied Red Knot Calidris canutus foraging on intertidal mudflats that were subject to attacks by Peregrine Falcons Falco peregrinus. Foraging rate and position with respect to cover that a predator might use was unaffected by weather, but re[...]
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M. Hansell, Auteur ; G. D. Ruxton, AuteurWe sought to investigate the extent to which natural feather availability constrains avian nest construction by provisioning a site with feathers. Twenty patches, each of fifty marked feathers, were made available to naturally breeding passerine[...]
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R. Inger, Auteur ; G. A. Gudmundsson, Auteur ; G. D. Ruxton, Auteur ; J. Newton, Auteur ; K. Colhoun, Auteur ; S. Auhage, Auteur ; S. Bearhop, AuteurThere is considerable evidence to suggest that an animal's ability to access the appropriate resources at one time of year may profoundly restrict its performance at another. For migrants, wintering and breeding periods are often connected by re[...]
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A. Maclean, Auteur ; F. A. Huntingford, Auteur ; G. D. Ruxton, Auteur ; I. J. Morgan, Auteur ; J. Hamilton, Auteur ; J. D. Armstrong, Auteur1. Models linking the behaviours of individual animals, their positions within socially complex groups and spatio-temporal variation in resource distribution offer a promising base for predicting population responses to changing environments. Th[...]
