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Monitoring of avian predator reproduction on Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada
Predators play a key role in the functioning of ecosystems and could potentially control the abundance of their prey. As predators are at the top of the food chain, they can be... -
Monitoring of Lapland longspur reproduction on Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada
The Lapland longspur (Calcarius lapponicus) is one of the most abundant and visible terrestrial songbird breeding in the Arctic. As other Arctic-nesting birds, they are... -
Monitoring of Greater Snow Goose reproduction on Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada
Nest searches are carried out on foot from our main field station since 1989 and from a secondary field camp inside the main goose colony since 1992. Nests are found during... -
Monitoring of shorebirds reproduction on Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada
Nests are mainly found through systematic searches of a 4.5 km2 core area near our main field station from early June to early July since 2005. Nests are also found...