In some animal populations, immigrants have lower survival than philopatric individuals. Costs of dispersal or low phenotypic quality of dispersers may explain the pattern. However, apparent adult survival estimates, which ...
Wetlands are naturally patchy habitats, but patchiness has been accentuated by the extensive wetlands loss due to human activities. In such a fragmented habitat, dispersal ability is especially important to maintain gene ...
Kvist, Laura; Ponnikas, Suvi; Belda Pérez, Eduardo Jorge; Encabo, Ignacio; Martinez, Emilio; Onrubia, Alejandro; Hernandez, Jose M.; Vera, Pablo; Neto, Julio M.; Monros, Juan S.(Springer Verlag (Germany), 2011-07)
In the Iberian Peninsula, populations of two subspecies of the Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus have become increasingly fragmented during the last decades when suitable habitats have been lost and/or the populations have ...
Ceresa, F.; Belda, E.J.; Kvist, Laura; Kajanus, M.; Monrós González, Juan Salvador(Springer-Verlag, 2018)
[EN] Island populations are frequently smaller than continental populations, have lower genetic diversity, are more inbred and show genetic differentiation from the mainland ones. However, sufficient numbers of immigrants ...
Vera, Pablo; Belda Pérez, Eduardo Jorge; Kvist, Laura; Encabo, S. Ignacio; Monros, Juan S.(British Trust for Ornithology, 2011)
Capsule Careful management is required to maintain or create habitats with the correct proportions of rush with reeds that are preferred by this subspecies.
Aims To determine the habitat requirements of Eastern Iberian ...
Vera, Pablo; Belda Pérez, Eduardo Jorge; Kvist, Laura; Encabo, S. Ignacio; Marín Villora, Marcial; Monrós González, Juan Salvador(Sociedad Española de Ornitología (SEO/BirdLife), 2014-06)
[EN] Given the 80% decline of the eastern Iberian reed bunting Emberiza schoeniclus
witherbyi breeding population in recent decades, our aim was to identify the habitat components
selected during territory establishment ...