Robert E. Bennetts

TL;DR: The authors compared the abundance, species richness, and community composition of waterbirds in rice fields and natural marshes of the Camargue during a one-year study and found that rice fields were less rich than natural Marshes.

TL;DR: A review of the methods available for estimating dispersal and related parameters using marked individuals is presented in this paper, where the authors define a dispersal event as a movement of a specified distance or from one predefined patch to another, the magnitude of the distance or the definition of a ''patch? depending on the ecological or evolutionary question(s) being addressed.

TL;DR: Movement probabilities were higher during periods of relatively high food availability and were not associated with water levels; thus were consistent with the hypothesis that snail kites exhibited exploratory behavior during times of food abundance, and not with the hypotheses that low water levels or low food availability were the proximate cues to initiate movement.

TL;DR: Dry down survival rates and seasonal patterns of egg cluster production helped define a range of hydrology conditions that support robust apple snail populations, and illustrate why multiple characteristics of dry down events should be considered in developing target hydrologic regimes for wetland fauna.

TL;DR: It has been hypothesised that the viability of the snail kite population critically depends not only on the time interval between droughts, but also on the spatial extent of these droughting, and the implications of this hypothesis are explored by means of a spatially-explicit individual-based model.