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- The Evolution of Delayed Dispersal in Cooperative Breeders (1992) (488)
- PRINCIPLES OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY (1951) (260)
- Territory size in wintering Sanderlings: the effects of prey abundance and intruder density (1979) (256)
- Ecology and Evolution of Social Organization in Arctic Sandpipers (1974) (221)
- Numbers, Breeding Schedule, and Territoriality in Pectoral Sandpipers of Northern Alaska (1959) (204)
- Ecological Relations of Jaegers and Owls as Lemming Predators near Barrow, Alaska (1955) (193)
- Food overlap among coexisting sandpipers on northern Alaskan tundra (1968) (189)
- Condition and diet of cycling populations of the California vole, Microtus californicus. (1971) (184)
- Reproductive competition in the communal acorn woodpecker: sisters destroy each other's eggs (1983) (160)
- Fitness consequences of helping behavior in the western bluebird (1996) (148)
- Influence of Meadow Mouse Populations on California Grassland (1970) (135)
- Population Characteristics of the Terrestrial Isopod Armadillidium Vulgare in California Grassland (1962) (130)
- Relatedness and Inbreeding Avoidance: Counterploys in the Communally Nesting Acorn Woodpecker (1979) (118)
- An experimental analysis of prey availability for sanderlings (Aves: Scolopacidae) feeding on sandy beach crustaceans (1980) (115)
- Patterns and consequences of egg destruction among joint-nesting acorn woodpeckers (1995) (112)
- Interhabitat Movements by Sanderlings in Relation to Foraging Profitability and the Tidal Cycle (1981) (107)
- Speciation and ecologic distribution in American jays of the genus Aphelocoma (1952) (107)
- Resource Limitation in Populations of the California Vole (1984) (105)
- Ecological assessment. (1972) (99)
- Territoriality and Related Problems in North American Hummingbirds (1942) (88)
- Mate guarding in the acorn woodpecker: Within-group reproductive competition in a cooperative breeder (1983) (85)
- Timing of Molt in Steller Jays of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia (1958) (78)
- Seasonal Patterns of Abundance of Tundra Arthropods near Barrow (1971) (76)
- Pterylography, Molt, and Age Determination of American Jays of the Genus Aphelocoma (1945) (74)
- Ecologic Overlap and Interspecific Strife in Breeding Population of Anna and Allen Hummingbirds (1951) (70)
- Distribution of Birds in Relation to Major Biotic Communities (1941) (69)
- Some Aspects of Population Structure In The Short-Term Cycle Of The Brown Lemming In Northern Alaska (1957) (67)
- Replacement of breeders and within-group conflict in the cooperatively breeding acorn woodpecker (1985) (67)
- Demographic features of a lapland longspur population near Barrow Alaska (1977) (62)
- The Herbivore-Based Trophic System (2004) (59)
- Correction Factors for Digestion Rates for Prey Taken by Snow Buntings (Plectrophenax nivalis) (1975) (51)
- Individual contributions to cooperative nest care in the acorn woodpecker (1990) (50)
- Poor Acorn Crop, Dominance, and Decline in Numbers of Acorn Woodpeckers (1987) (48)
- Nutritional Ecology of Microtine Rodents: Food Habits of Lemmings near Barrow, Alaska (1983) (46)
- Population cycles of lemmings near Barrow, Alaska: a historical review (2007) (46)
- Territoriality in non-breeding shorebirds (1979) (46)
- 9 – Female Roles in Cooperatively Breeding Acorn Woodpeckers* (1983) (45)
- Variations in Summer Temperature Patterns near Barrow, Alaska: Analysis and Ecological Interpretation (1979) (43)
- AN AVIFAUNAL REVIEW FOR THE BARROW REGION AND NORTH SLOPE OF ARCTIC ALASKA (1974) (43)
- Breeding Behavior and Taxonomic Relationships of the Curlew Sandpiper (1964) (42)
- Habitat use by lemmings near Barrow, Alaska (1983) (42)
- Seasonal habitat use by Arctic Alaskan shorebirds (1979) (41)
- Structure of a wintering dunlin population (1989) (40)
- Intertidal invertebrates of the central California coast (1954) (37)
- Seasonal trends in summer diet of the lapland longspur near Barrow Alaska USA (1978) (34)
- Geographic variation and the species problem in the shore-bird genus Limnodromus (1951) (33)
- Breeding Behavior of Jaegers and Owls near Barrow, Alaska (1955) (33)
- Costs and Benefits of Joint Nesting in the Acorn Woodpecker (1988) (33)
- High Population of Breeding Birds within an Artificial Habitat (1942) (27)
- Ecologic Overlap of Allen and Anna Hummingbirds Nesting at Santa Cruz, California (1956) (22)
- Intragroup dynamics of a cooperative breeder: An anlysis of reproductive roles in the acorn woodpecker (1982) (21)
- ENERGY BUDGET AND PREY REQUIREMENTS OF BREEDING LAPLAND LONGSPURS NEAR BARROW, ALASKA, U.S.A. (1986) (21)
- Vole Cycles: Test of Another Hypothesis (1975) (20)
- Storm Mortality in a Winter Starling Roost (1939) (20)
- Breeding Seasons of Hummingbirds near Santa Barbara, California (1951) (20)
- Notes on the Distribution and Taxonomy of Mexican Game Birds (1948) (18)
- Intellectual Censorship in Ecology (1974) (18)
- Efficiency of Winter Scavengers in the Arctic (1972) (13)
- Environmental Decision Making: Multidimensional Dilemmas. (1993) (12)
- Measurement of Bird Populations S. C. Kendeigh (1944) (12)
- The Breeding System of the Acorn Woodpecker in Central Coastal California (2010) (11)
- A Hybrid Jay from Chiapas, Mexico (1956) (11)
- Are Acorn Woodpecker Territories Aggregated (1983) (10)
- The Birds of the Uinta Basin, Utah Arthur C. Twomey (1942) (10)
- Taxonomy and Distribution of the Mexican Sparrow Xenospiza baileyi (1947) (9)
- Island Life: A Study of the Land Vertebrates of the Islands of Eastern Lake Michigan R. T. Hatt J. Van Tyne L. C. Stuart C. H. Pope A. B. Grobman (1949) (9)
- Contribution to the Ornithology of the Hawaiian Islands E. H. Bryan, Jr. J. C. Greenway, Jr. (1944) (8)
- Nature Sanctuaries in the United States and Canada, a Preliminary Inventory S. Charles Kendeigh (1952) (7)
- Differentiation of the Scrub Jay, Aphelocoma coerulescens, in the Great Basin and Arizona (1945) (7)
- HISTORICAL AND PRESENT BREEDING SEASON DISTRIBUTION OF STELLER'S ELDERS IN ALASKA (2002) (6)
- Wet coastal plain tundra III (1980) (6)
- Age in Relation to Migration in the Blue Jay (1946) (5)
- Comments on Types and Taxonomy in the Jay Genus Aphelocoma (1961) (4)
- Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos) (2020) (4)
- Demography and Condition of Brown Lemmings (Lemmus trimucronatus) During Cyclic Density Fluctuations Near Barrow, Alaska (2018) (4)
- Flight Song of the Blue-Winged Warbler (1939) (4)
- Ecological Studies on the Alaskan Arctic Slope (1969) (4)
- ACADEMIC FAMILY TREE FOR LOYE AND ALDEN MILLER (1993) (4)
- Occurrence of Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) in North America Refuted (1983) (3)
- Hybrid Vermivorae in the Chicago Region (1939) (3)
- A Curtailed Postjuvenal Molt in the Steller Jay (1961) (3)
- Population Control in Birds and Other Animals (1957) (3)
- Brewster's Warbler in the Chicago Region (1938) (3)
- Arctic low foothills tundra (1980) (3)
- The Problematical Relationships of the Asiatic Shorebird Limnodromus semipalmatus (1948) (2)
- Nashville Warbler Breeding in Northeastern Illinois (1940) (2)
- Presentation of Nesting Data: Further Discussion (1943) (2)
- Intertidal Invertebrates of the Central California Coast. S. F. Light's "Laboratory and Field Text in Invertebrate Zoology" (1954) (2)
- POPULATION ECOLOGY OF ARCTIC LAND VERTEBRATES (1954) (2)
- Presentation of Nesting Data (1941) (1)
- Studies in the Life History of the Song Sparrow II: The Behavior of the Song Sparrow and Other Passerines Margaret Morse Nice (1944) (1)
- Mourning Warbler Nesting in the Chicago Region (1939) (1)
- Birds of the Navajo Country A. M. Woodbury H. N. Russell, Jr. (1945) (1)
- A First in the Literature on Avian Cooperative Breeding Systems (1986) (1)
- Range Management for the Animal Ecologist (1960) (1)
- Nesting by pomarine jaegers near Barrow, Alaska, 1971 (1987) (1)
- The Galapagos Finches (Geospizinae) David Lack (1945) (1)
- THE CONDOR (2001) (0)
- Resolution of Respect (2004) (0)
- Structure and function of the tundra ecosystem at Barrow, Alaska. 4. Bibliography of the Barrow, Alaska, IBP ecosystem model. (1970) (0)
- Book Review:Populations of Small Mammals Under Natural Conditions. Dana P. Snyder (1979) (0)
- Ecological Aspects of Social Evolution: Birds and Mammals D. I. Rubinstein R. W. Wrangham (1988) (0)
- Natural Communities Lee R. Dice (1955) (0)
- Curio, E. The ethology of predation. Springer-Verlag, Berlin—Heidelberg—New York, x + 250 pp., illus., 1976. Price $29.60 (1978) (0)
- Gilbert, N., A. P. Gutierrez, B. D. Frazer, and R. B. Jones. Ecological relationships. W. H. Freeman and Co., Reading and San Francisco, [x+] 157 pp., illus., 1977. Price $7.50 (1978) (0)
- Bird-Ringing, the Art of Bird Study by Individual Marking R. M. Lockley Rosemary Russell (1955) (0)
- Book Review:Plants and Environment. A Textbook of Plant Autecology. R. F. Daubenmire (1948) (0)
- Introduction to Quantitative Systematics Mont A. Cazier Annette L. Bacon (1950) (0)
- Nesting Birds and the Vegetation Substrate William J. Beecher (1943) (0)
- North Atlantic Biota and tory. (1964) (0)
- JAYS OF THE GENUS ‘APHELOCOMA (2001) (0)
- The Biotic Provinces of North America Lee R. Dice (1943) (0)
- April Fool! (1982) (0)
- The Web of Life. A First Book of Ecology John H. Storer (1954) (0)
- Storm mortality in a Winter Starling roost (1939) (2019) (0)
- Say's Phoebe in Northern Indiana (1938) (0)
- Leks Jacob Höglund Rauno V. Alatalo Arena Birds: Sexual Selection and Behavior Paul A. Johnsgard (1997) (0)
- Melanism in the Black-Crowned Night Heron (1938) (0)
- The Yellow Wagtail Stuart Smith (1955) (0)
- Shore Invertebrates@@@Intertidal Invertebrates of the Central California Coast (1955) (0)
- Western Sandpiper in Illinois (1939) (0)
- The Study of Instinct N. Tinbergen (1953) (0)
- A nesting study of the Black-throated Green Warbler Dendroica virens virens (Gmelin). (1938) (0)
- Principles of Animal Ecology W. C. Allee A. E. Emerson O. Park T. Park K. P. Schmidt (1951) (0)
- The Transverse Volcanic Biotic Province of Central Mexico and Its Relationships to Adjacent Provinces Robert T. Moore (1945) (0)
- Between Pacific Tides Edward F. Ricketts Jack Calvin Joel W. Hedgpeth (1953) (0)
- Wakeley, J. S. (ed.). Wildlife Population Ecology. Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, University Park and London, x + 385 pp., 1982. Price $18.50 (cloth), $11.95 (paper) (1983) (0)
- Modern Bird Study Ludlow Griscom (1945) (0)
- Book Review:Seabirds of Hawaii: Natural History and Conservation. Craig S. Harrison (1992) (0)
- The Canvasback and Other Waterfowl (1945) (0)
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