Samantha E. Franks

TL;DR: In other species of shorebirds, no seasonal patterns in breeding performance are found, suggesting that some species are not subject to selective pressure for early breeding, and seasonal declines in clutch size and incubation duration might be adaptive to hasten hatching of later nests.

TL;DR: Using spatially extensive survey data from 1983 to 2010 to estimate variation in spring phenology from 280 plant and insect species and the egg‐laying phenology of 21 British songbird species, the effects of trophic asynchrony on avian population trends and potential underlying demographic mechanisms are explored.

TL;DR: The findings of few effects of environmental or ecological variables suggest that annual survival rates of adult shorebirds are generally robust to conditions at Arctic breeding sites, and conditions at migratory stopovers or overwintering sites might be driving adult survival rates.

TL;DR: A quantitative assessment of the effectiveness of policy and management interventions used throughout Europe to improve population and demographic metrics of grassland‐breeding waders finds targeted AES and site protection measures were more likely to be effective than would be expected by chance.