Climate Extremes in Consecutive Years Impacted the Number and Fate of Duck Nests on Great Salt Lake Marshes
Michael R. Conover, Mark E. Bell · 2024
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Michael Conover and Mark Bell study how back-to-back climate extremes hit duck nests on Great Salt Lake marshes, in work from 2024. Ground-nesting ducks there have thinned for decades, and warming extremes are a suspect. Five years gave a natural test: one wet spring, two droughts, and one record snow year.
The team counted over nine hundred nests across three duck species. Nest numbers rose and fell with spring rain. Clutches shrank in drought years. Raccoons and skunks took most lost nests. The share of nests raided jumped from under half in wet years to as high as nine in ten in drought. Successful nests peaked in the wettest conditions.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Michael R. Conover, Mark E. Bell |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 47 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |