Search Results - "Yanco, Scott"
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Seasonal migration alters energetic trade‐off optimization and shapes life history
Published in Ecology letters (01-02-2024)“…Trade‐offs between current and future reproduction manifest as a set of co‐varying life history and metabolic traits, collectively referred to as ‘pace of…”
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Tracking individual animals can reveal the mechanisms of species loss
Published in Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam) (01-11-2024)“…•Efforts to halt biodiversity loss can be improved by diagnosing the specific mechanisms causing species to go extinct.•Current methods to estimate the…”
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Life history diversity in terrestrial animals is associated with metabolic response to seasonally fluctuating resources
Published in Ecography (Copenhagen) (01-03-2022)“…Physiological and behavioral processes interact with environmental conditions to strongly influence organismal life history strategies which covary with…”
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Niche dynamics suggest ecological factors influencing migration in an insectivorous owl
Published in Ecology (Durham) (01-03-2022)“…Seasonal migration is a widespread phenomenon undertaken by myriad organisms, including birds. Competing hypotheses about ultimate drivers of seasonal…”
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Migratory birds modulate niche tradeoffs in rhythm with seasons and life history
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (08-10-2024)“…Movement is a key means by which animals cope with variable environments. As they move, animals construct individual niches composed of the environmental…”
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Migratory lifestyle carries no added overall energy cost in a partial migratory songbird
Published in Nature ecology & evolution (18-09-2024)“…Seasonal bird migration may provide energy benefits associated with moving to areas with less physiologically challenging climates or increased food…”
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Evidence of postbreeding prospecting in a long‐distance migrant
Published in Ecology and evolution (01-01-2021)“…Organisms assess biotic and abiotic cues at multiple sites when deciding where to settle. However, due to temporal constraints on this prospecting, the…”
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Comment on “A global-scale ecological niche model to predict SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection rate”, author Coro
Published in Ecological modelling (15-11-2020)“…In this letter we present comments on the article “A global-scale ecological niche model to predict SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus” by Coro published in 2020…”
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A modern method of multiple working hypotheses to improve inference in ecology
Published in Royal Society open science (01-06-2020)“…Science provides a method to learn about the relationships between observed patterns and the processes that generate them. However, inference can be confounded…”
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Migration timing and routes, and wintering areas of Flammulated Owls
Published in Journal of field ornithology (01-03-2016)“…Determining patterns in annual movements of animals is an important component of population ecology, particularly for migratory birds where migration timing…”
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Application of stable isotopes to study movement ecology and diet variation in a migratory songbird
Published in Journal of field ornithology (01-11-2022)“…Whether and how migratory organisms exhibit interindividual behavioral and/or physiological variation across movement strategies remains an open question. The…”
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First Observed Instance of Polygyny in Flammulated Owls
Published in The Wilson journal of ornithology (01-09-2008)“…We document the first observed instance of polygyny in Flammulated Owls (Otus flammeolus) and the first among insectivorous raptors. Chronologies of the male's…”
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Species distribution models affected by positional uncertainty in species occurrences can still be ecologically interpretable
Published in Ecography (Copenhagen) (01-06-2023)“…Species distribution models (SDMs) have become a common tool in studies of species–environment relationships but can be negatively affected by positional…”
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In Light of Ecology: Eco-Evolutionary Strategies for Persistence in Seasonal Environments
Published 01-01-2021“…Seasonality is one of the most important sources of environmental variation that organisms face. In response, species have evolved a wide array of adaptive…”
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Migration timing and routes, and wintering areas of Flammulated Owls: Migration Routes and Wintering Areas of Flammulated Owls
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