Faltering lemming cycles reduce productivity and population size of a migratory Arctic goose species

1. The huge changes in population sizes of Arctic-nesting geese offer a great opportunity to study population limitation in migratory animals. In geese, population limitation seems to have shifted from wintering to summering grounds. There, in the Arctic, climate is rapidly changing, and this may im...

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Published in:Journal of Animal Ecology
Main Authors: Nolet, Bart A, Bauer, Silke, Feige, Nicole, Kokorev, Yakov I, Popov, Igor Yu, Ebbinge, Barwolt S
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2013
Subjects:
Population Ecology
Arctic
Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3744762
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23419215
https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12060
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Summary:1. The huge changes in population sizes of Arctic-nesting geese offer a great opportunity to study population limitation in migratory animals. In geese, population limitation seems to have shifted from wintering to summering grounds. There, in the Arctic, climate is rapidly changing, and this may impact reproductive performance, and perhaps population size of geese, both directly (e.g. by changes in snow melt) or indirectly (e.g. by changes in trophic interactions).

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