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Andres, B.A., Smith, P.A., Morrison, R.I.G., Gratto-Trevor, C.L., Brown, S.C. and Friis, C.A. 2012. Population estimates of North American shorebirds, 2012. Wader Study Group Bulletin 119(3): 178-194.
Bart, J., Smith, P. A., Lalla, K., Pollock, L., Flemming, S., Gahbauer, M., Paquet, J., Moynes, E. and Nol, E. In prep. COSEWIC Status Report on Arctic Shorebirds.
Bird, J.P., Martin, R., Akçakaya, H.R., Gilroy, J., Burfield, I.J., Garnett, S.G., Symes, A., Taylor, J., Şekercioğlu, Ç.H. and Butchart, S.H.M. 2020. Generation lengths of the world’s birds and their implications for extinction risk. Conservation Biology 34(5): 1252-1261. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13486.
Butler, C.J. 2003. The disproportionate effect of global warming on the arrival dates of short-distance migratory birds in North America. Ibis 145: 484-495.
Elmhagen, B., Berteaux, D., Burgess, R.M., Ehrich, D., Gallant, D., Henttonen, H., ... and Angerbjörn, A. 2017. Homage to Hersteinsson and Macdonald: climate warming and resource subsidies cause red fox range expansion and Arctic fox decline. Polar Research 36(sup1): 3.
Farmer, A., Holmes, R. T. and Pitelka, F. A. 2020. Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos), version 1.0. Ithaca, NY. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. (Accessed: 14/07/2024).
Flemming, S. A., Nol, E., Kennedy, L. V. and Smith, P. A. 2019a. Hyperabundant herbivores limit habitat availability and influence nest site selection of Arctic‐breeding birds. Journal of Applied Ecology 56: 976-987.
Flemming, S. A., Nol, E., Kennedy, L. V., Bedard, A., Giroux, M. A. and Smith, P. A. 2019c. Spatio-temporal responses of predators to hyperabundant geese affect risk of predation for sympatric-nesting species. PLoS ONE 14: e0221727.
Flemming, S. A., Smith, P. A., Rausch, J. and Nol, E. 2019b. Broad‐scale changes in tundra‐nesting bird abundance in response to hyperabundant geese. Ecosphere 10: e02785.
Gallant, D., Lecomte, N. and Berteaux, D. 2020. Disentangling the relative influences of global drivers of change in biodiversity: a study of the twentieth-century red fox expansion into the Canadian Arctic. Journal of Animal Ecology 89: 565-576.
Hansen, B.D., Rogers, D.I., Watkins, D., Weller, D.R., Clemens, R.S., Newman, M., Woehler, E.J., Mundkur, T., Fuller, R.A. 2022. Generating population estimates for migratory shorebird species in the world’s largest flyway. Ibis 164(3): 735-749.
IUCN. 2024. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2024-2. Available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 22 October 2024).
Partners in Flight. 2023. Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2023-4. Partners in Flight Databases. Available at: https://pif.birdconservancy.org/avian-conservation-assessment-database-scores/. (Accessed: 18th March, 2024).
Smith, P.A., Smith, A.C., Andres, B., Francis, C.M., Harrington, B., Friis, C., Morrison, R.I.G., Paquet, J., Winn, B. and Brown, S. 2023. Accelerating declines of North America's shorebirds signal the need for urgent conservation action. Ornithological Applications 125: 1-14.
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