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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Somateria mollissima"”.
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Nest site selection by common eiders : relationships with habitat features, microclimate and incubation success
… of nest site selection by common eider ducks (Somateria mollissima) at an island colony in Canada’s Eastern Arctic, and looked for evidence of selective processes underlying these patterns by employing experimental and observational techniques.I characterized physical features of (a) non-nest …
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Micro and macroclimate effects on reproductive performance of Common Eiders
… performance of a sea duck, the Common Eider (Somateria mollissima) breeding in a cold environment. First I described the spatial variation in nest distribution in relation to female’s and nest attributes. Females of similar quality formed aggregations of nests and clusters of high productivity …
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Brood ecology and population dynamics of King Eiders
… about changes in population size. King eiders (Somateria spectabilis) breed across the arctic region of North America and winter in polar oceanic waters of the western and eastern regions of the continent. Here I studied a local population of King Eiders at Karrak Lake, Nunavut, where I used …
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Validation and use of novel techniques to study the impacts of large-scale environmental changes on the health of wild waterfowl
… demands in all four subspecies of common eider (Somateria mollissima; COEI) that breed in North America (S. m. borealis, S. m. dresseri, S. m. sedentaria, and S. m. v-nigra). All COEI subspecies are experiencing increased temperatures within their respective geographic ranges, and energetic costs …