Gastrointestinal microbiota play a vital role in maintaining organismal health, through
facilitating nutrient uptake, detoxification and interactions with the immune system. The …

… Mong, TW, and BK Sandercock. 2007. Optimizing radio retention and minimizing radio …
Sandercock, BK 2003. Estimation of survival rates for wader populations: a review of mark–…

… Five hypotheses have been proposed to explain the relationship between annual survival
(S a ) and harvest mortality (K), and can be expressed by the equation S a = S o (1 − bK), …

… population change (Conn et al. 2005, Sandercock 2006). We conducted a literature review
to … Sandercock, BK 2006. Estimation of demographic parameters from live encounter data: a …

Matings between close relatives often reduce the fitness of offspring, probably because
homozygosity leads to the expression of recessive deleterious alleles 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 . Studies of …

Every year, many wild animals undertake long-distance migration to breed in the north, taking
advantage of seasonally high pulses in food supply, fewer parasites, and lower predation …

… Life table analyses of these data yield annual survival rates of 0.755 (BK Sandercock, unpubl.
analyses). In general, life-table methods have limited practical value because they require …

Elevational gradients provide powerful natural systems for testing hypotheses regarding the
role of environmental variation in the evolution of life‐history strategies. Case studies have …

Mark–recapture statistics have rarely been applied to plants, yet they can be useful for
estimating plant demographic traits where individuals may be missed or unobservable. We …

… , spatial scale of study plots, and analytical technique (Sandercock and Jaramillo 2002). …
BK Sandercock received financial support from a postdoctoral fellowship from the Killam …