Social information trumps vegetation structure in breeding-site selection by a migrant songbird

…, N Rodenhouse, JJ Nocera - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - royalsocietypublishing.org
To maximize fitness, organisms must assess and select suitable habitat. Early research
studying birds suggested that organisms consider primarily vegetation structural cues in their …

Inadvertent social information in breeding site selection of natal dispersing birds

JJ Nocera, GJ Forbes… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Several species use the number of young produced as public information (PI) to assess
breeding site quality. PI is inaccessible for synchronously breeding birds because nests are …

Variability in the growth patterns of the cornified claw sheath among vertebrates: implications for using biogeochemistry to study animal movement

…, CJ Kyle, TK Kyser, JJ Nocera - Canadian Journal of …, 2010 - cdnsciencepub.com
We review the role of biogeochemical signatures, such as stable isotopes and trace elements,
in the cornified claw tissue as a means of studying movement and foraging behaviour of …

Research needs and recommendations for the use of conspecific-attraction methods in the conservation of migratory songbirds

…, D Arlt, MG Betts, RJ Fletcher Jr, JJ Nocera… - The Condor, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Numerous studies have confirmed that when selecting habitat birds can use social information
acquired from observing other individuals, and many aspects of this social information …

[HTML][HTML] Forest degradation drives widespread avian habitat and population declines

…, JS Rousseau, JM Northrup, JJ Nocera… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
In many regions of the world, forest management has reduced old forest and simplified forest
structure and composition. We hypothesized that such forest degradation has resulted in …

Historical pesticide applications coincided with an altered diet of aerially foraging insectivorous chimney swifts

JJ Nocera, JM Blais, DV Beresford… - … of the Royal …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Numerous environmental pressures have precipitated long-term population reductions of
many insect species. Population declines in aerially foraging insectivorous birds have also …

[HTML][HTML] Stable isotopes from museum specimens may provide evidence of long-term change in the trophic ecology of a migratory aerial insectivore

PA English, DJ Green, JJ Nocera - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Identifying the mechanisms of ecological change is challenging in the absence of long-term
data, but stable isotope ratios of museum specimen tissues may provide a record of diet and …

Habitat and food supply across multiple spatial scales influence the distribution and abundance of a nocturnal aerial insectivore

PA English, JJ Nocera, BA Pond, DJ Green - Landscape Ecology, 2017 - Springer
Context Conservation research often focuses on individual threats at a single spatial scale,
but population declines can result from multiple stressors occurring at different spatial scales. …

In Situ Behavioral Response of Common Loons Associated with Elevated Mercury (Hg) Exposure

JJ Nocera, PD Taylor - Conservation Ecology, 1998 - JSTOR
Common Loons (Gavia immer) in Nova Scotia, Canada have the highest blood mercury (Hg)
concentrations of any loon population in North America. Previous studies have shown that …

[HTML][HTML] South American cold surges: Types, composites, and case studies

AR Lupo, JJ Nocera, LF Bosart… - Monthly Weather …, 2001 - journals.ametsoc.org
This paper examines the climatological, large-scale, and synoptic-scale aspects of South
American cold surges using NCEP–NCAR gridded reanalyses for the 1992–96 period. Three …